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LAWS  OF  MAINE 


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PUBLIC  SCHOOLS 


1911 


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LAWS  OF  MAINE 

RELATING   TO 

PUBLIC   SCHOOLS 
1911 

Being  Chapter  15,  Revised  Statutes  of  1903,  (and  subsequent 
amendments  thereto)  together  with  certain  of  the  Public  Laws 
of  1905,  1907,  1909,  and  1911,  governing  the  management  of 
all  public  schools  except  those  in  districts  organized  with  special 
powers  by  acts  of  Legislature. 

(Enactments  of  1911  are  effective  June  30,  1911.) 


CHAPTER   15. 

EDUCATION    OF    YOUTH. 

LOCATION    OF    SCHOOLS. 

SEC.   i.     The  school  districts  in  all  towns  in  the  state  are  AH  school 
abolished.     Provided,  however,  that  school  districts  organized  abolished  ex- 
with  special  powers  by  act  of  the  legislature  may  retain  such  organized™' 
organization  and  special  powers  ;  but  said  districts  shall  annually  legislature. 
on  or  before  the  first  day  of  June,  by  their  agents,  trustees  or  §  i.  ' 
directors,  submit  to  the  school  committees  of  their  several  towns 
estimates  of  the  amounts  required  for  the  maintenance  of  the 
schools  therein,  other  than  free  high  schools,  i?or  the  ensuing—  how 
school  year,  and  shall  be  entitled  'to  such  portion  of  the  common 


school  funds  of  the  town  as  said  committees  shall  determine,  belcsupported. 
which  sum  shall  not  be  less  than  is  necessary  for  the  mainte- 
nance of  their  schools  for  a  period  equal  to  that  of  the  other 
schools  of  the  town;  and  provided  further,  that  the  corporate 
powers  of  every  school  district  shall  continue  so  far  as  the  same 

.,,.,.,.  ....      —  corporate 

may  be  necessary  for  meeting  its  liabilities  and  enforcing  its  powers  of 
rights;  and  any  property  held  in  trust  by  any  school  district  by  continued 
virtue  of  a  gift,  devise  or  bequest  for  the  benefits  of  said  district 


shall  continue  to  be  held  and  used  according  to  the  terms  thereof.  i83  c.  216 


4  SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE). 

NO  change          $EC   2      The  location  of  any  school  legally  established  prior 

in  location  of  1-1 

any  school      to   March   seventeen,  eighteen  hundred  and  ninety-three  con- 

tabiished.        tinues  unchanged,  notwithstanding  the  district  is  abolished  ;  but 

i9oi  c  203    any  town  at  its  annual  meeting,  or  at  a  meeting  called  for  the 

purpose,  may  determine  the  number  and  location  of  its  schools, 

and  may  discontinue  them  or  change  their  location;  but  such 

—towns  may  discontinuance  or  change  of  location  shall  be  made  only  on  the 

determine  J 

number  and    written  recommendation  of  the  superintending  school  committee, 

recommen-      anc{  on  conditions  proper  to  preserve  the  just  rights  and  priv- 

»ittee  c°m"     ileSes  °f  the  inhabitants  for  whose  benefits  such  schools  were 

established;  provided,  however,  that  in  case  any  school  shall 

hereafter  have  too  few  scholars  for  its  profitable  maintenance, 

the  superintending  school  committee  may  suspend  the  operation 

of°schooisn     °^  suc^  scno°l   for  not  more  than  one  year  unless  otherwise 

schoiarsWmay  instructed  by  the  town,  but  any  public  school  failing  to  maintain 

i903UcPe66.ed'  an  average  attendance  for  any  school  year,  of  at  least  eight 

pupils,  shall  be  and  hereby  is  suspended,  unless  the  town  in 

which  said  school  is  located  shall  by  vote,  at  the  annual  meeting 

after  the  said  committee  shall  have  made  a  written  recommen- 

dation to  that  effect,  instruct  its   superintending  school   com- 

te~ndentrishaii  mittee  to  maintain  said  school.     The  superintendent  of  schools 

?e?ance  fo?"  in  each  town  sha11  procure  the  conveyance  of  all  common  school 

pupils  residing  in  his  town,  a  part  or  the  whole  of  the  distance, 

to  and  from  the  nearest  suitable  school,  for  the  number  of  weeks 

for  which  schools  are  maintained  in  each  year,  when  such  pupils 

reside  at  such  distance  from  the  said  school  as  in  the  judgment 

of  the  superintending  school  committee  shall  render  such  con- 

—  committee    veyance  necessary.     Provided,  however,  that  the  superintending 

may    author-         t_       i 

!n!teadrof  committee  may  authorize  the  superintendent  of  schools 

to  pay  the  board  of  any  pupil  or  pupils  at  a  suitable  place  near 
any  established  school  instead  of  providing  conveyance  for  said 
pupil  or  pupils,  when  in  their  judgment  it  may  be  done  at  an 
equal  or  less  expense  than  by  conveyance. 

SEC*  3'     When  a  location  for  the  erection  or  removal  of  a 
ioths00inbc0er  schoolhouse  an<*  requisite  buildings  has  been  legally  designated, 
taing  cases,      by  vote  of  town  at  any  town  meeting  called  for  that  purpose 
Jsoi'c.  211    and  the  owner  thereof  refuses  to  sell,  or,  in  the  opinion  of 
;  municipal  officers,  asks  an  unreasonable  price   for   it    or 
^dama_ges.     resides  without  the  state  and  has"  no  authorized  agent  or  attor- 
iey  therein,  they  may  lay  out  a  schoolhouse  lot,  not  exceeding 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE.  5 

three  acres,  and  appraise  the  damages  therefor;  and  on  payment— how  Paid- 
or  tender  of  such  damages,  or  if  such  owner  does  not  reside  in 
the  state,  upon  depositing  such  damages  in  the  treasury  of  such 
town  for  his  use,  the  town  designating  it  may  take  such  lot  to 
be  held  and  used  for  the  purpose  aforesaid;  and  when  such  ^J^to 
schoolhouse  has  ceased  to  be  thereon  for  two  years,  said  lot  D^J, JJe"  n°J 
reverts  to  the  owner,  his  heirs  or  assigns.     And  any  town  ortwo  years- 
city  may  take  real  estate  for  the  enlargement  or  extension  of 
any  location  designated  for  the  erection  or  removal  of  a  school- 
house  and  requisite  buildings1  and  playgrounds,  as  herein  pro- 
vided ;  but  no  real  estate  shall  be  so  taken  within  fifty  feet  of  a  fu°Unot  wfth- 
dwelling-house,  and  all  schoolhouse  lots  and  playgrounds  that  in dwemrfg.  °f 
require  fencing  shall  be  fenced  by  the  town  or  city. 

SEC.  4.     If  the  owner  is  aggrieved  at  the  location  of  the  lot,  algAeved7 
or  the  damages  awarded,  he  may  apply  to  the  county  commis-  RWn|r'c  n 
sioners  within  six  months,  who  may  change  the  location  and  |9JJ-  c    211 

>s  the  damages.     If  the  damages  are  increased,  or  the  loca- §  2< 
tion  changed,  such  town  or  district  shall  pay  the  damages  and 
costs ;  otherwise  the  costs  shall  be  paid  by  the  applicant. 

SEC.  5.     If  any  town  or  school  district,  by  its  officers  or  by  a  f^0^™36 
committee,   has  designated,   located   and  described  a  lot   upon  J^us  loca" 
which  to  erect,  move  or  repair  a  schoolhouse,  and  from  mistake  _how  re_ 
or  omission  has  failed  to  comply  with  the  law,  whereby  such  an^maSe1 
location  has  been  rendered  invalid,  three  legal  voters  and  tax-  Jalig'  c  1]L 
payers  thereof  may  apply  in  writing  to  the  selectmen  of  said  §  59- 
town,  and  have  the  lot,  so  designated  or  described,  re-appraised 
by  them. 

SEC.  6.  The  selectmen  of  any  town  to  whom  such  appli- 
cation has  been  made,  shall  forthwith  give  not  less  than  seven 
nor  more  than  twenty  days'  notice  to  the  clerk  of  said  town  or1*-  s.  c-  1:L 
district  and  to  the  owner  of  such  real  estate,  or  to  the  persons 
having  the  same  in  charge,  of  the  time  and  place  by  them  fixed 
for  such  hearing,  and  shall,  after  examination  and  hearing  of 
all  interested,  appraise  the  lot  as  set  out  and  affix  a  fair  value 
thereon,  exclusive  of  improvements  made  by  said  district  or 
town,  either  by  buildings  or  otherwise;  and  shall,  as  soon  as 
practicable,  notify  the  town  or  district  clerk,  and  the  persons 
interested  in  said 'estate  who  had  been  notified  as  hereinbefore 
provided,  of  the  sum  at  which  said  lots  had  been  appraised. 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE. 

nd       SEC.  7.    The  sum  fixed  as  the  value  of  said  lot  shall  be 
Rllesctcd<ii     assessed,  collected  and  paid  over  as  other  school  money. 

SEC.  8.  Any  sum  which  has  been  tendered  and  is  in  the 
Inowed  In  be  hands  or  under  the  control  of  the  persons  owning  or  having 
R^s16?!'!!  charge  of  such  land,  shall  be  allowed  in  payment  of  said 

*    62.  ., 

appraisal. 

Either  party       SEC.  9.     If  the  town  or  district,  or  persons  owning  or  having 
R.ays.  acPPiih  charge  of  the  land  on  which  such  location  is  made,  are  dissatis- 
fied with  such  appraisal,  either  party  may  within  ten  days  appeal 
to  the  county  commissioners  of  the  county  in  which  the  land 
lies,  by  filing  a  copy  of  the  proceedings  and  a  claim  of  appeal 
with  said  commissioners,  and  the  determination  of  a  majority 
of  said  commissioners  not  residents  of  said  town,  shall  be  final; 
improve-  SEC.  io.     When  any  school  district  or  town  has  erected  or 

toetownDorre    moved  a  building  upon  such  lot  or  in  any  way  improved  the 
R.8ts!Cc.  11     same,  such  improvement  shall  inure  to  the  benefit  of  such  town 
or  district,  and  the  same  may  be  as  completely  occupied  and 
controlled  by  such  town  or  district  as  it  would  have  been  if  such 
location  had  been  in  strict  conformity  to  law. 

Tax  not  SEC.  ii.     The  legality  of  a  tax  assessed  to  build,  repair  or 

error  ein  y      move  a  schoolhouse  and  to  pay  for  a  lot,  shall  not  be  affected  by 
R.  s.  c.'  11     any  mistake  or  error  in  the  designation  or  location  thereof. 
Plan  to  be         *^EC<   I2'     A  plan  for  the  erecti°n  or  reconstruction  of  a 
commute!?7  scnoolnouse  voted  by  a  town,  shall  first  be  approved  by  the 
?'el'  C'  n     suPerintending  school  committee  and  in  case  no  special  build- 
ing committee  has  been  chosen  by  the  town,  said  superintending 
school  committee  shall  have  charge  of  said  erection  or  recon- 
struction; provided,  however,  that  they  may   if  they  see   fit, 
delegate  said  power  and  duty  to  the  superintendent  of  schools. 


DUTIES   OF  TOWNS. 

Towns  to  :*SEC.  13.     Every  town  shall  raise  and  expend,  annually   for 

raise  money     it,  ._   _  r  ,        ,  J  ' 

for^choois.  t  ot  common  schools  therein,  exclusive  of  the  income 

IPO!'       ils  °f  an>'  C0rp°rate  schoo]  fund>  or  of  any  grant  from  the  revenue 

fund  from  the  state,  or  of  any  voluntary  donation,  devise  or 

Bequest,  or  of  any  forfeiture  accruing  to  the  use  of  schools,  not 


Chap.  88,  K  L.,  1909. 
of  Chapter  177,  P.  L.,  1909. 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE. 

less   than  eighty  cents   for   each   inhabitant,   according   to   the 
census   by  which   representatives   to   the   legislature   were   last 
apportioned,  under  penalty  of  forfeiting  not  less  than  twice  nor 
more  than   four  times  the   amount   of   its   deficiency,   and   all 
moneys  provided  by  towns,  or  apportioned  by  the  state  for  the 
support  of  common  schools,  shall  be  expended  for  the  mainte-  _expendi- 
nance   of   common   schools   established   and   controlled   by   the tu 
towns  by  which   said  moneys  are  provided,  or  to  which  said 
moneys  are  apportioned ;  but  nothing  in  this  section  shall  be  so 
construed  as  to  annul,  or  render  void,  the  provisions  made  in 
section  eighteen  of  this  chapter  for  the  establishment  and  main-  §955'  °'  48' 
tenance  of  union  schools  by  adjoining  towns. 

SEC.    14.     All  towns   incorporated   since   seventeen   hundred  ?ypf0nwisUreS 
and  eighty-eight,  not  formerly  parts  of  other  towns,  which  f ail  Account  lfor 
to  account  for  the  permanent  school  fund  arising  from  sale  or  JSSSi^imdB. 
lease  of  school  lands  in   said  towns,  shall  annually  raise  and  1903>  c'  17T 
expend  for  the  maintenance  of  common  schools  not  less  than 
forty-five  dollars  in  addition  to  the  amount  required  by  law  to 
be  raised  and  expended  for  the  support  of  said  schools. 

SEC.  15.     No  money  appropriated  by  law  for  public  schools  ^ey,  how 
shall  be  paid  from  the  treasury  of  any  town,  except  upon  thef0a4nsby 
written  order  of  its  municipal  officers;  and  no  such  order  shall  f'-^\  °' 11* 
be  drawn  by  said  officers  except  upon  presentation  of  a  properly  |9^5>  c-  48« 
.  avouched  bill  of  items.     The  unexpended  balance  of  all  moneys  _unexpend. 
raised  by  towns,  or  received  from  the  state,  for  the  payment  of  ed  balance- 
wages  and  board  of  teachers,  fuel,  janitors'  services,  conveyance 
or  tuition  and  board  of  scholars,  shall  be  credited  to  the  school 
resources  for  the  year  following  that  in  which  said  unexpended 
balance  occurred.     This  clause,  relating  to  unexpended  balances 
shall  not  apply  to  cities. 

SEC.    16.     When  the  governor  and  council  have   reason  to  1^° min"tax 
believe  that  a  town  has  neglected  to  raise  and  expend  the  school 
money  required  by  law,  or  to  employ  teachers  certificated  as 
required  by  law,  or  to  have  instruction  given  in  the  subjects  f;7s>  c<  llf 
prescribed  by  law  or  to  provide  suitable  text-books,  in  the  sub-  Jfgjj;  ^J* 
jects   prescribed   by   law,   or   faithfully   to   expend   the   school 
money  received  from  the  state,  or  in  any  way,  to  comply  with 


g  SCHOOL,    LAWS    01?    MAINE. 

the  laws  prescribing  the  duties  of  towns  in  relation  to  public 
schools,  they  shall  direct  the  treasurer  of  state  to  withhold 
further  payment  to  such  town  from  the  state  school  fund  and 
mill  tax  until  such  town  satisfies  fchem  that  it  has  expended  the 
full  amount  of  school  money  as  required  by  law  and  that  it  has 
complied  in  all  ways  with  the  law  prescribing  the  duties  of 
towns  in  relation  to  public  schools. 

same  aggre-       SEC.  17.     The  school  money s  of  every  town  shall  be  so  ex- 
feantgthan0nfual    pended  as  to  give  as  nearly  as  practicable  the  same  aggregate 
is™' c.  216,  annual  length  of  terms  in  all  its  schools,  and  every  town  shall 
1909,  c.  29.    make  provision  for  the  maintenance  of  all  its  schools  for  not 
less  than   twenty-six  weeks   annually.      Any    town    failing   to 
maintain  its  schools  as  provided  in  this  section,  shall  be  debarred 
from  drawing  its  state  school  moneys,  till  it  shall  have  made 
suitable  provisions  for  so  maintaining  them  thereafter. 
Union  SEC.   18.     Adjoining  towns,  upon  the  written  recommenda- 

may°be          tion  of  the  school  committee  of  said  towns,  may  by  concurrent 
5raiadjo?ning  action  maintain  union  schools  for  the  benefit  of  parts  of  said 
i°893!'c.  216,  towns  constituting  on  March  one,  eighteen  hundred  and  ninety- 
four,  union  school  districts,  or  may  establish  such  schools,  and 
shall  contribute  to  their  support  each  in  proportion  to  the  num- 
ber of  scholars  in  each  of  said  towns  attending  such  schools, 
—manage-      Said  school  shall  be  under  the  management  of  the  school  corn- 
schools.   ^      mittee  of  the  town  in  which  their  schoolhouses  are  located. 

*SEC.  19.  Towns  shall  expend  the  entire  amount  of  the 
s  school  fund  and  mill  tax  received  from  the  state,  together  with 
,  c.  48,  the  amounts  arising  from  the  eighty  cents  per  capita,  as  pro- 
vided in  section  thirteen  of  said  chapter  fifteen  and  the  funds 
arising  from  the  various  sources  enumerated  in  the  first  four 
lines  of  section  thirteen  of  said  chapter  and  the  funds  arising 
from  the  provisions  of  section  fourteen  of  said  chapter,  for 
the  payment  of  teachers'  wages  and  board,  fuel,  janitors'  ser- 
vices, conveyance  of  scholars  and  tuition  and  board  of  scholars, 
.  as  provided  in  section  two  and  section  fifty  of  said  chapter  fif- 

— shall    pro-    ,  1111  •  1          111 

vide  school     teen  and  shall  provide  school  books,  apparatus  and  appliances 

books  and         f         «  e  .,     .       ,  ,  ,. 

Apparatus.  for  the  use  of  pupils  in  the  public  schools,  including  all  free  high 
schools,  at  the  expense  of  said  town ;  and  shall  also  pay  for 
the  necessary  repairs  of  school  buildings  and  insurance  on  same, 

*See  also  Section  6,  Chapter  177,  P.  L.  1909. 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE.  9 

if  any,  improvement  and  maintenance  of  school  yards  and  play- 
grounds out  of  a  sum  or  sums  of  money  raised  and  appropriated 
for  that  purpose  which  shall  be  assessed  like  other  money  and 
shall  be  in  addition  to  and  independent  of  the  amount  which 
towns  are  required  by  law  to  raise,  assess  and  expend  for  the 
support  of  common  schools ;  provided,  however,  that  any  parent 
or  guardian  of  any  pupil  in  the  public  schools  may,  at  his  own 
expense,  procure  for  the  separate  and  exclusive  use  of  such 
pupil,  the  text-books  required  to  be  used  in  such  schools  and 
no  second  hand  books  shall  be  purchased  for  the  use  of  any_second 
school;  any  person  violating-  this  provision  shall  forfeit  not ^9,  c°°i3i. 
exceeding  five  hundred  dollars,  to  be  recovered  in  an  action  of 
debt  by  any  school  officer  or  person  aggrieved. 

SEC.  20.     School  committees  shall  make  such  rules  and  regu-  Distribution 
lations  not  repugnant  to  law,  as  they  deem  proper,  for  the  dis-  issS^c!' 2Q8, 
tribution  and  preservation  of  school  books  and  appliances  fur-  §  2' 
nished  at  the  expense  of  the  town. 

SEC.  21.     When  a  pupil  in  the  public  schools  loses,  destroys,  Damages  for 

*    '  injuring   or 

or  unnecessarily  injures  any  such  school  book  or  appliance,  f ur-  d^ror^1c^' 
nished  such  pupil  at  the  expense  of  said  town,  his  parent  or ered- 
guardian  shall  be  notified,  and  if  the  loss  or  damage  is  not  made  I  10. 
good  to  the  satisfaction  of  such  committee  within  a  reasonable 
time,   they  shall   report  the   case  to   the   assessors,   who   shall 
include  in  the  next  town  tax  of  the  delinquent  parent  or  guar- 
dian the  value  of  the  book  or  appliance  so  lost,  destroyed  or 
injured,  to  be  assessed  and  collected  as  other  town  taxes. 

*SEC.  22.    Any  city  or  town  may,  in  addition  to  the  sum  raised  Evening 
for  the  support  of  the  common  schools,  raise  and  appropriate  iss^c.  246. 
money  for  the  support  of  evening  schools,  which  shall  admit 
persons  of  any  age,  shall  teach  only  the  elementary  branches, 
and  shall  be  under  the  direction  and  supervision  of  the  super- 
intending school  committee. 

*SEC.  2^.     Anv  city  or  town  may  annually  make  provision  for  instruction 

in    industrial 

free  instruction  in  industrial  or  mechanical  drawing,  to  persons  or  mecnani- 

- ,  .  .  ,  .  ,  ,       cal    drawing. 

over  fifteen  years  of  age,  either  in  day  or  evening  schools,  under  R.  s.  c.  11, 
direction  of  the  superintending  school  committee. 

*SEC.  24.    Any  city  or  town  may,  in  addition  to  the  sum  raised  Manual 

-     ,  .  .         training 

for  the  support  of  the  common  schools,  raise  and  appropriate  schools. 

-  r  .     .  t,        i  i  iS01'    C.    234, 

money  for  the   support  of  manual   training  schools  and  may  §  §  i,  5. 


*See  also  An  Act  for  the  encouragement  of  Industrial  Education,  Chap- 
ter   188,   P.   L.,   1911. 


I0 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE. 


Direction, 
regulations 
Schools.     3 
§9§012,  C3,  4. 


scholars  at 
fog  warning  ' 

Wing 
1893,  c.  19& 


I8930lca8i62 


—attendance. 


Annual 


to 

fitendent.6'" 
R.^S.  c.  11 


receive  gifts  and  bequests  for  the  use,  maintenance  and  support 
of  such  schools. 

See.  25.  Such  schools  shall  be  under  the  control,  direction 
and  supervision  of  the  superintending  school  committee,  and 
shall  admit  such  persons  between  the  ages  of  six  and  twenty-one 
years,  and  shall  give  such  courses  of  instruction  as  said  commit- 
tee may  determine.  Pupils  in  such  schools  shall  be  subject  to 
the  same  conditions,  rules  and  regulations  as  provided  for 
public  schools. 

ggc  26.  Persons  between  the  ages  of  five  and  twenty-one 
years  living  at  any  light  station,  fog  warning  station,  or  life 
saving  station  shall  be  admitted  to  any  public  school  in  the  state 
without  'paying  tuition  ;  such  scholars  shall  be  entitled  to  all 
privileges  and  benefits,  and  be  subject  to  the  same  conditions, 
rules  and  regulations  as  scholars  residing  in  the  town  in  which 
they  attend  school. 

SEC.  27.  The  age  of  pupils  allowed  to  attend  the  public 
schools  of  the  state  is  hereby  fixed  between  the  ages  of  five 
and  twenty-one  and  every  child  between  the  said  ages  shall 
nave  tne  right  to  attend  the  public  schools  in  the  town  in  which 
his  parent  or  guardian  has  a  legal  residence,  subject  to  such 
reasonable  regulations  as  to  the  numbers  and  qualifications  of 
pupils  to  be  admitted  to  the  respective  schools  and  as  to  other 
school  matters  as  the  school  committee  shall  from  time  to  time 
prescribe. 

^EC.  2^-  ^ie  asscssors  or  municipal  officers  of  each  town, 
shall>  on  or  t>e±~ore  tne  first  ^ay  of  each  May,  make  to  the  state 
suPermtendent  of  public  schools,  a  certificate,  under  oath,  em- 
bracing  the  following  items: 

I.  The  amount  voted  by  the  town  for  common  schools  at 
the  preceding  annual  meeting. 

II.  The  amount  of  school  moneys  payable  to  the  town  from 
the  state  treasury  during  the  year  ending  with  the  first  day  of 
the  preceding  April. 

III.  The  amount  of  money  actually  expended  for  common 
schools  during  the  preceding  fiscal  year  of  the  town. 

The  amount  of  school  moneys  unexpended  at  the  ex- 
piration of  the  preceding  fiscal  year  of  the  town. 

\  .  Answers  to  such  other  inquiries  as  are  presented  to 
secure  a  full  and  complete  statement  of  school  revenues  and 
expenditures. 


SCHOOL    LAWS    0?    MAINE).  II 

SEC.  29.     Every  town  shall  choose  by  ballot  at  its  annual  Election  of  a 

J  J  school  com- 

meeting  a   superintending   school   committee  of  three  to  hold         e- 


office  as  provided  in  the  following  section  and  shall  fill  vacancies  ^ 
arising  therein  at  each  subsequent  annual  meeting.     No  person  §§  is.'ss.' 
is  ineligible  to  the  office  of  superintending  school  committee,  on 
account  of  sex. 

SEC.  30.     School  committees  first  chosen  shall  designate  by  superintend- 
lot  a  member  or  members  to  hold  office  for  one,  two  and  three  committee, 

.      ,  .    „  -  when  first 

years  respectively,  in  manner  as  tollows  ;  one  tor  one  year,  one  chosen,  snail 
for  two  years  and  one  for  three  years;  and  they  shall  certify  terms  of 
such  designation  to  the  town  clerk  to  be  by  him  recorded  ;  and  R-  s."  c.  11 
thereafterwards  one  member  shall  be  chosen  by  ballot  at  the  1897,"  c.  327 
annual  meeting  of  the  town,  to  hold  office  for  three  years.    Said 
committee  may  fill  vacancies  occurring  between  annual  meet  —  vacancies. 
ings,  and  the  term  of  office  of  any  member  of  the  committee  so 
chosen  shall  expire  at  the  next  annual  meeting.     No  member  shall  i?em 
of  the  superintending  school  committee  of  any  town  shall  be  teach  in  his 
employed  as  teacher  in  any  public  school  in  said  town. 

SEC.  31.     The  provisions  of  the  two  preceding  sections  shall  Sections  29 
not  apply  to  cities  whose  charters  specify  the  methods  of  elec-not  apply*?" 
tion  and  term  of  office  of  a  superintending  school  committee  ori*97,Ic.C327; 
board  of  education;  nor  to  towns,  cities  and  incorporated  dis- 
tricts authorized  by  private  and  spc-cial  laws  to  choose  school 
committees  other  than  those  herein  provided  for. 

SEC.  32.     A  town  failing  to  elect  members  of  the  superintend-  neglect"  to°r 
ing  school  committee  as  required  by  law,  forfeits  not  less  than  miS.ee.  °c 
thirty,  nor  more  than  two  hundred  dollars.  ^'20!  °'  1 

SEC.  33.     Superintending  school  committees  shall  serve  with-  committee 

•ve 
pay. 


out  pay,  unless  otherwise  voted  by  the  town,  but  the  superin-  5!t"outerve 


tendent  shall  receive  for  his  services  such  sum  as  the  town  shall  _COmpensa- 
annually  vote  therefor,  which  sum  shall  in  no  case  be  less  than  Superin- 
two  dollars  a  day  for  every  day  of  actual  service  and  necessary  R.nsenc.'  n, 
traveling  expenses.  }8||-  c>  32T 

§  2. 

POWER    AND    DUTIES    OF    SUPERINTENDING    SCHOOL    COMMITTEES 
AND  SUPERINTENDENTS. 

SEC.  34.     The  management  of  the  schools  and  the  custody 


and  care,  including-  repairs  and  insurance  on  school  buildings,  of  devolves 

upon  super- 

all  school  property  in  every  town,  shall  devolve  upon  the  super-  intending 

J  school  corn- 

intending  school  committee  which  shall  annually,  and  as  often  mittee. 

189T,   c.   332* 
1903,   c.   100. 


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SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE- 


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11 


.  m. 
1905,  c.  43, 

Direct  the 

instruction 

fext  books1 


nslphysioi- 
hSngtene. 

§  i.1' 


scholars. 


as  a  vacancy  shall  occur,  elect  a  superintendent  of  schools  who 
shall  not  be  a  member  of  the  committee.  After  due  notice  and 
investigation  the  superintending  school  committee  may  for  cause 
discharge  a  superintendent  of  schools  and,  after  protracted  ab- 
sence  f  rom  duty  On  the  part  of  such  superintendent,  may  declare 
a  vacancy  in  his  office.  This  section  shall  not  apply  to  cities, 
nor  to  towns  authorized  by  special  laws  to  employ  or  choose 
superintendents  in  manner  otherwise  than  as  herein  provided. 

SEC.  35-  Superintending  school  committees  shall  perform  the 
following  duties: 

im  Direct  the  general  course  of  instruction,  and  select  a  uni- 
f°rm  system  of  text-books,  due  notice  of  which  shall  be  given  ; 
no  text-books  thus  introduced,  shall  be  changed  for  five  years 

°  J 

unless  by  vote  of  the  town  ;  any  person  violating  this  provision 
shall  forfeit  not  exceeding  five  hundred  dollars,  to  be  recovered 
in  an  action  of  debt  by  any  school  officer  or  person  aggrieved. 
And  when  said  committee  have  made  such  selection  of.  school 
books,  they  may  contract,  under  section  nineteen,  with  the  pub- 
lishers for  the  purchase  and  delivery  thereof;  make  such  rules 
as  they  deem  effectual  for  their  preservation  and  return  ;  or,  if 
they  are  kept  for  sale,  may  regulate  the  sale  and  appoint  an 
agent  to  keep  and  sell  them,  and  fix  the  retail  price,  which  shall 
be  marked  on  the  title  page  of  each  book. 

II.  They   shall  make  provision   for   the   instruction   of   all 
pupils  in  schools  supported  by  public  money  or  under  state  con- 
trol,  in  physiology  and  hygiene,  with  special  reference  to  the 
effects  of  alcoholic  drinks,  stimulants  and  narcotics  upon  the 
human  system. 

III.  After  due  notice  and  investigation  they  shall  dismiss 
any  teacher,  although  having  the  requisite  certificate,  who  proves 
unfit  to  teach,  or  whose  services  they  deem  unprofitable  to  the 
school;  and  give  to  said  teacher  a  certificate  of  dismissal  and 
of  the  reasons  therefor,  a  copy  of  which  they  shall  retain,  and 
such  dismissal  shall  not  deprive  the  teacher  of  compensation  for 
previous  services. 

IV.  Expel  any  obstinately  disobedient  and  disorderly  scholar, 
after  a  proper  investigation  of  his  behavior,  if  found  necessary 
for  the  peace  and  usefulness  of  the  school;  and  restore  him  on 
satisfactory  evidence  of  his  repentance  and  amendment. 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE.  13 


V.  Exclude,  if  they  deem  it  expedient,  any  person  not  va,c-  not 
cinated,  although  otherwise  entitled  to  admission.                        vaccinated. 

VI.  Prescribe  the  sum,  on  payment  of  which  persons  of  the  ^[STtcTbe 
required  age,  resident  on  territory,  the  jurisdiction  of  which  hasgj1*  c?Sesr" 
been  ceded  to  the  United  States,  included  in  or  surrounded  by 

the  town,  may  attend  school  in  the  town. 

VII.  Determine  what   description   of   scholars   shall   attend  gjjjjjj 
each  school,  classify  them,  and  transfer  them  from  school  to 
school  where  more  than  one  school  is  kept  at  the  same  time.      gu  t  of 

SEC.  36.     The  superintendent  of  schools  in  every  town  shall  ^^Js0sfec' 
be,  ex-officio,  secretary  of  the  superintending  school  committee  ^g^^^o 
and  shall  perform  such  duties  not  herein  enumerated  as  said  i|g|»  £•  332. 
committee  shall  direct.  J925'.  c-  48> 

§    b. 

I.  He  shall  appoint  suitable  times  and  places  for  the  exam-  _  .. 

1  Snail  appoint 

ination  of  candidates  proposing  to  teach  in  town,  and  shall  give  tl^g  ^Jj? 
notice  thereof  by  posting  the  same  in  two  or  more  public  places  examina- 
within  the  town  at  least  three  weeks  before  the  time  of  said 
examination,  or  by  the  publication  of  said  notice  for  a  like  time 
in  one  or  more  newspapers  having  the  largest  circulation  in  the 
county.     Five  days  constitute  the  school  week,  and  four  weeks 
a  school  month. 

II.  On   satisfactory  evidence  that   a  candidate  possesses  a  §^gifi0cfa" 
good  moral  character  and  a  temper  and  disposition  suitable  for  teachers. 
an  instructor  of  youth,  he  shall  examine  him  in  reading,  spelling, 
English  grammar,  geography,  history,  arithmetic,  civil  govern- 
ment, bookkeeping,  and  physiology  with  special  reference  to  the 
effects  of  alcoholic  drinks,  stimulants  and  narcotics  upon  the 
human  system;  and  the  elements  of  the  natural  sciences,  espe- 

cially as  applied  to  agriculture,  and  such  other  branches  as  the 
superintending  school  committee  desire  to  introduce  into  public 
schools,  and  particularly  into  the  school  for  which  he  is  exam-. 
ined  ;  also  as  to  his  capacity  for  the  government  thereof. 

III.  He  shall  give  to  each  candidate  found  competent,  a  cer- 
tificate  that  he  is  qualified  to  govern  said  school  and  instruct  in 
the  branches  above  named,  and  such  other  branches  as  may  be 
necessary  to  be  taught  therein,  or  he  may  render  valid  by  in- 
dorsement any  graded  certificates  issued  to  teachers  by  normal 
school  principals.     Xo  certificate  shall  be  granted  any  person  to 
teach  in  the  public  schools  of  the  state,  who  has  not  passed  a 


I4  SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE. 

satisfactory  examination  in  physiology  and  hygiene,  with  special 
reference  to  the  effects  of  alcoholic  drinks,  stimulants  and  nar- 
cotics upon  the  human  system, 
shall  employ      jy     He  shall  employ  teachers,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the 

teachers.  •* 

superintending  school  committee. 

school  y.     He  shall  return  under  oath  to  the  school  committee,  in 

isSTc.  216,  April  annually,  a  certified  list  of  the  names  and  ages  of  all  per- 
il, s.  c.  11  S0ns  in  his  town  from  five  to  twenty-one  years,  corrected  to  the 
first  day  of  said  month,  leaving  out  of  said  enumeration  all  per- 
sons coming  from  other  places  to  attend  any  college  or  academy, 
or  to  labor  in  any  factory,  or  at  any  manufacturing  or  other 
business. 

Return  to          SEC.  Vj.     He  shall  annually  make  returns  to  the  state  super- 
state   super-    .  J 
intendent  of    mtendent  of  public  schools,  of  the  number  of  persons  between 

1897,  c.  289.  the  ages  of  five  and  twenty-one  years,  together  with  a  certified 
list  of  the  names  and  ages  of  such  person's,  corrected  to  the  first 
day  of  April  preceding  the  time  of  making  said  returns,  and 
give  full  and  complete  answers  to  the  iriquiries  contained  in  the 
blank  forms  furnished  him  by  law;  certify  that  such  statement 
is  true  and  correct,  according  to  his  best  knowledge  and  belief ; 
and  transmit  it  to  the  office  of  the  state  superintendent  on  or 
before  the  first  day  of  each  May.  He  shall  also  furnish  such 
other  information  relating  to  the  public  schools  as  the  said 
superintendent  shall  at  any  time  require  of  him.  When  the 
state  superintendent  of  schools  on  examination  of  the  census 
returns  of  any  town  is  of  the  opinion  that  the  census  has  been 
inaccurately  taken  he  shall  make  statement  thereof  to  the  gov- 
ernor and  council  who  may  require  the  census  of  such  town  to 

—census  maybe  retaken  and  returned  and,  if  they  think  necessary,  they  may 
for  this  purpose  appoint  persons  to  perform  this  service  and 
'  such  persons  so  appointed  shall  take  the  same  oath,  perform  the 
same  service  and  receive  the  same  compensation  out  of  the  same 
fund  as  the  person  or  persons  who  took  the  school  census  in  the 
first  instance;  and  the  school  fund  distributable  in  proportion 
to  the  enumeration  of  scholars  shall  be  distributed  on  the  cor- 
rected returns. 

Annual  SEC.  38.     The  return  called  for  in  section  thirty-seven  shall 

SStrf         contain  the  following  particulars: 

Rhos°lsc.  11         L     The   number  of  children   between   five   and   twenty-one 

isff;  c.  120.  years  of  aSe>  belonging  to  his  town,  on  the  first  dav  of  April 
1903,  c.  48,    preceding. 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE).  15 

II.  The  whole  number  and  the  average  number  of  scholars 
attending  the  summer  schools ;  the  whole  number  and  the  aver- 
age,  attending  the   winter   schools,   also   the   total  number  of 
•different  scholars  attending  school  two  weeks  or  more  of  the 
preceding   year,   as   shall   appear   from   the   teacher's   registers 
returnable  as  provided  in  section  eighty-five. 

III.  The  average  length  of  the  summer  schools  in  weeks ; 
the  average   length  of   the  winter  schools  in  weeks ;  and  the 
average  length  of  the  schools  for  the  year. 

IV.  The  number  of  male,  and  of  female  teachers  employed 
in  the  public  schools  during  any  part  of  the  year. 

V.  The  wages  of  male  teachers  a  month,  and  the  wages  of 
female  teachers  a  week,  the  cost  of  board  to  be  added  to  the 
wages,  in  case  the  town  pays  the  board. 

SEC.  39.     He  shall  examine  the  schools  and  inquire  into  thesnaii 
regulations  and  discipline  thereof,  and  the  proficiency  of  the  schools. 

1  £  1-1  1  1         11  '      '*.  1_  1_  1  *.      1  1893'     C'     216> 

scholars-,  for  which  purpose  he  shall  visit  each  school  at  least  §  s. 
twice  each  term.     At  the  annual  town  meeting,  he  shall  make  a 
written  report  of  the  condition  of  the  schools  for  the  past  year,  —annual 
the  proficiency  made  by  the  pupils,  and  the  success  attending  the  R.P<£  c.  11, 
modes  of  instruction  and  government  thereof,  and  transmit  a  1393'  c.  216, 
copy  to  the  state  superintendent  of  public  schools. 

SEC.  40.     The  school  committees  of  two  or  more  towns,  hav-  TWO  or 
ing  under  their  care  and  custody  an  aggregate  of  not  less  than  Say6  unite3 
twenty,  nor  more  than  fifty  schools,  may  unite  in  the  employ-  pfoynient1" of 
ment  of  a  superintendent  ©f  schools,  provided  they  have  been  so  tendent.m" 
authorized  by  a  vote  of  their  towns  at  the  regular  town  meet- J8i.' '  c'  296> 
ings,  or  special  town  meetings  called  for  that  purpose.     Pro-  1909,'  £'  122. 
vided   further  that   such  union  shall  not  take  effect  until  the 
state  superintendent  of  public  schools  shall  have  approved  the 
certificate  of  union  as  hereinafter  provided.     But  the  committee 
of  any  town  dissatisfied  with  the  decision  of  the  state  superin- 
tendent may  appeal  to  the  governor  and  council  who  shall  make 
the  final  decision  relative  thereto.     Provided  further  in  any  case 
where   it   shall   appear   to   the   state   superintendent   of   public  m™  sc.  92. 
schools,  upon  the  representation  of  the  school  committees  of 
certain  towns  that,   owing  to  geographical  situation  or  other 
reasons  it  is  to  the  advantage  of  the  state  and  of  the  said  towns 
that  a  union  shall  include  fewer  than  twenty  or  more  than  fifty 
schools  said  state  superintendent  of  public  schools  shall  have 


j5  SCHOOL    LAWS    01?    MAINE. 

authority  to  approve  the  certificate  of  such  union,  and  a  union 
so  formed  shall,  except  for  the  number  of  schools,  be  governed 
by  the  conditions  herein  prescribed  for  unions  of  towns, 
schooi-com-        $£C   4I      The  school  committees  of  the  towns  comprising  a 

mittees  of  ,          ,  ,.     .  . 

such  towns     imion  shall  form  a  joint  committee,  and  for  the  purposes  of  this 

shall  form  a  ...... 

joint  com-      section  and  the  four  following  sections,   said  joint  committee 

mittee.  .   .          . 

shall  be  held  to  be  the  agents  of  each  town  comprising  the  union, 
—shall  meet  $ak\  joint  committee  shall  meet  annually  at  a  day  and  place 

annually.  -     ,  .  ,   ,.  « 

1897,  c.  296,  agreed  upon  by  the  chairman  of  the  committees  of  the  several 
towns  comprising  the  union,  and  shall  organize  by  the  choice  of 
—duties.  a  chairman  and  a  secretary.  They  shall  determine  the  relative 
c  122 '  amount  of  service  to  be  performed  by  the  superintendent  in  each 
town,  fix  his  salary,  apportion  the  amounts  thereof  to  be  paid 
by  the  several  towns,  which  amount  shall  be  certified  to  the 
treasurers  of  said  towns  respectively  and  to  the  state  superin- 
tendent of  schools,  together  with  the  amount  apportioned  to 
each  town ;  provided  that  the  amounts  so  certified  shall  be  in 
proportion  to  the  amount  of  service  performed  in  the  several 
towns.  They  shall  choose  by  ballot  a  superintendent  of  schools 
for  a  term  not  exceeding  five  years,  but  the  period  of  such 
election  shall  not  exceed  that  for  which  the  union  of  towns  has 
been  authorized. 

Towns  may         SEC.  42.     I.     Whenever  the  chairman  and  secretary  of  said 
cpmVpensa?r     joint  committee  shall  certify  under  oath  to  the  state  superintend- 
intendentup<  r~  cut  of  schools,  according  to  form  prescribed  by  the  state  super- 
96'  intendent  that  a  union  has  been  maintained  and  a  superintendent 
employed  as  provided  in  sections  forty  and  forty-one  of  this 
chapter,  which  certification  shall  be  made  quarterly,  on  the  first 
days  of  January,  April,  July  and  October  of  each  year,  then, 
1907,  c.  lo'i,  upon  approval  of  said  certificate  by  the  state  superintendent  of 
1909,  c.  146.  schools,  payment  shall  be  made  out  of  the  sum  appropriated  for 
superintendence  of  towns  comprising  school  unions  and  out  of 
any  moneys  in  the  treasury  not  otherwise  appropriated  to  the 
superintendent  so  employed  of  a  sum  equal  to  twice  the  aggre- 
gate sum  paid  by  the  towns  comprising  the  union,  provided  that 
the  amount  so  paid  for  the  benefit  of  a  single  union  of  towns 
— appropri-     shall  not  exceed  eight  hundred  dollars  in  one  year,  and  provided 

ation  out  of     -      ,,  .  ,  J  ^ 

state  school     iurt.ier  that  the  annual  appropriation  for  payments  under  this 
i9ii, 'c.  191.  act  shall  be  deducted  from  state  school  funds. 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE.  IJ 

II.     Whenever   the  chairman  and   secretary  of   school  com- Aid  to  super- 

interments 

mittees  oi  towns  and  cities  having  under  their  care  and  custody  havins  over 

J  fifty  schools 

an  aggregate  of  more  than  fifty  schools,  shall  certify  under under  their 
oath  to  the  state  superintendent  of  schools,  the  form  of  certifi-  custody, 
cate  to  be  determined  by  said  state  superintendent,  that  a  super- 
intendent of  schools  has  been  employed  by  them  for  one  year, 
and  the  salary  that  he  has  received,  then  upon  the  approval  of 
said  certificate  by  the  state  superintendent  of  schools  and  pre- 
sentation to  the  governor  and  council,  a  warrant  shall  be  drawn 
upon  the  treasurer  of  the  state  for  the  payment  to  the  treasurer 
of  that  town  or  city,  of  a  sum  equal  to  three-fifths  the  amount 
expended  by  said  town  or  city  for  said  superintendence,  pro- 
vided that  the  amount  so  paid  for  the  benefit  of  a  single  town 
or  city  shall  not  exceed  eight  hundred  dollars  in  one  year. 

SEC.  43.     The  towns  uniting  for  the  purpose  of  employing  attJn'S'eacii 
superintendent  of  schools  shall  appropriate  for  his  salary  their  arynoff°super- 
proportion  of  the  sum  paid  said  superintendent ;  and  the  amount  1^97^  c^se, 
to  be  paid  by  each  town  shall  be  determined  by  dividing  thef^  c   101> 
entire    sum   expended    for    superintendence    among   the    towns §  3' 
comprising  the  union  in  the  proportion  of  the  service  performed 
in  each  town.     A  union  of  towns  formed  under  the  provisions 
of  sections  forty  and  forty-one  shall  continue  for  a  period  of 
three  years  unless  sooner  dissolved  by  a  two-thirds  vote  of  the 
joint  committee. 

SEC.  44.     Persons  employed  to   serve  as  superintendents  of  quaiifica- 
schools  under  section  forty-one  and  section  forty-two  shall  hold  super- 
state certificates  of  superintendence  grade  which  shall  be  issued  1897,  T.  296, 
upon  such  examination  as  may  be  prescribed  by  the  state  super-  1909,  c.  120, 
intendent  of  public  schools  and  they  shall  devote  their  entire  1909,  c.  122, 
time  to  superintendence.     The  powers  and  duties  of  said  super- 
intendents  shall  be  the  same  as  those  prescribed  for  town  super- 
intendents in  this  chapter. 

SEC.  45.     No  town  shall  receive  state  aid  under  section  forty- state  aid 
two  unless  its  appropriation  and  expenditure  for  superintend-  withneki. 
ence  have  been  exclusive  of  the  amount  required  by  law  for  §  7. ' 
common  school  purposes.     If  any  part  of  the  money  raised  by  §  g.  ' 
the  towns  or  union  of  towns,  or  paid  to  them  by  the  state  for  g9^9'  c-  122* 
superintendence,  is  expended  for  any  other  purposes  than  those 
provided  for  in  said  section,  then  each  person  so  misappropri- 
ating said  money  shall  forfeit  double  the  sum  so  misapplied,  to 


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SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE. 


be  recovered  in  an  action  of  debt,  in  the  name  and  to  the  use  of 
the  town,  by  any  inhabitant  thereof;  and  no  town  or  union  of 
towns  shall  receive  further  aid  under  said  section  until  the 
amount  so  misapplied  has  been  raised  and  expended  for  super- 
intendence bv  such  town  or  union  of  towns. 


Towns  may 
make  by- 
laws con- 
cerning 
truants. 
R.  S.  c.  11 
§   21. 


— approval. 


Violation  of 
by-laws. 
R.   S.  c.  11 
§   22. 


Truant 
children 
may   be 
placed  in 
suitable 
Institutions. 
R.  S.  c.  11 
5   23. 


Children  be- 
tween   certain 
ages  must 
attend    school 
unless  ex- 
cused  by 
committee. 
1899,  c.  80, 
S    1. 

1901,  c.  185, 
5   I- 

1903,  c.  140. 
J.905,  c.  48, 
§    9. 
1909,  c.  57. 


COMPULSORY    EDUCATION. 

SEC.  46.  Towns  may  make  such  by-laws,  not  repugnant  to 
law,  concerning  habitual  truants,  and  children  between  six  and 
seventeen  years  of  age  not  attending  school,  without  any  regular 
and  lawful  occupation,  and  growing  up  in  ignorance,  as  are  most 
conducive  to  their  welfare  and  the  good  order  of  society;  and 
may  annex  a  suitable  penalty,  not  exceeding  twenty  dollars,  for 
any  breach  thereof ;  but  such  by-laws  must  be  first  approved  by 
a  judge  of  the  supreme  judicial  court. 

SEC.  47.  Truant  officers  elected  as  provided  in  section  fifty- 
one  shall  alone  make  complaints  for  violations  of  said  by-laws, 
and  shall  execute  the  judgments  of  the  magistrate. 

SEC.  48.  Said  magistrate,  in  place  of  fine,  may  order  children 
proved  to  be  growing  up  in  truancy,  and  without  the  benefit  of 
the  education  provided  for  them  by  law,  to  be  placed  for  such 
periods  as  he  thinks  expedient,  in  the  institution  of  instruction, 
house  of  reformation,  or  other  suitable  situation  provided  for 
the  purpose  under  section  forty-six. 

SEC.  49.  Every  child  between  the  seventh  and  fifteenth  anni- 
versaries of  his  birth  and  every  child  between  the  fifteenth  and 
seventeenth  anniversaries  who  cannot  read  at  sight  and  write 
legible  simple  sentences  in  the  English  language  shall  attend 
some  public  day  school  during  the  time  such  school  is  in  session, 
and  an  absence  therefrom  of  one-half  day  or  more  shall  be 
deemed  a  violation  of  this  requirement ;  provided  that  necessary 
absence  may  be  excused  by  the  superintending  school  committee 
or  superintendent  of  schools  or  teachers  acting  by  direction  of 
either';  provided  also,  that  such  attendance  shall  not  be  required 
if  the  child  obtained  equivalent  instruction,  for  a  like  period  of 
time,  in  an  approved  private  school  or  in  any  other  manner 
approved  by  the  superintending  school  committee;  provided, 
further,  that  children  shall  not  be  credited  with  attendance  at  a 
private  school  until  a  certificate  showing  their  names,  residence 
and  attendance  at  such  school  signed  by  the  person  or  persons 


SCHOOIv    LAWS    OF    MAINE.  I 

having  such   school  in   charge,   shall  be   filed   with  the  school 
officials  of  the  town  in  which  said  children  reside ;  and  provided, 
further,  that  the  superintending  school  committee  may  exclude  ^yme?ciude 
from  the  public  schools  any  child  whose  physical  or  mental  con-J^ain  chi1' 
dition  makes  it   inexpedient  for  him  to  attend.      All  persons 
having  children  under  their  control  shall  cause  them  to  attend 
school  as  provided  in  this  section,  and  for  every  neglect  of  such 
duty  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  twenty-five  dol- 
lars or  shall  be  imprisoned  not  exceeding  thirty  days. 

SEC.  50.     Children  living  remote  from  any  public  school  in 
the  town  in  which  they  reside  may  be  allowed  to  attend  the  pub- 
lie  schools,  other  than  a  high  school  approved  as  provided  in  tS 
section  sixty-three,  in  an  adjoining  town,  under  such  regulations  JJJJJf  agreed 
and  on  such  terms  as  the  school  committees  of  said  towns  agree  J8|®f  c'  80' 
upon  and  prescribe,  and  the  school  committee  of  the  town  in 
which  such  children  reside  shall  pay  the  sum  agreed  upon,  out 
of  the  appropriations  of  money  raised  in  said  town  for  school 
purposes.     Except  as  above  provided,  a  child  attending  a  public 
school,  other  than  a  high  school  approved  as  provided  in  section  ~tuition> 
sixty-three,  in  a  town  in  which  his  parent  or  legal  guardian  does 
not  reside,  after  having  obtained  the  consent  of  the  school  com- 
mittee of  such  town,  shall  pay,  as  tuition,  a  sum  equal  to  the 
average  expense  of  each  scholar  in  such  school. 

*  SEC.  51.     Cities  and  towns  shall  annually  elect  one  or  more  towns  Sfaii 
persons,  to  be  designated  truant  officers,  who  shall  inquire  into  officers™3 
all  cases  of  neglect  of  the  duties  prescribed  in  section  forty-nine  §8!9'  c' 
and  ascertain  the  reasons  therefor  and  shall  promptly  report  the  §9io'.  c*  48> 
same  to  the  superintending  school  committee,  and  such  truant  1911',  £'.  113" 
officers  or  any  of  them  shall,  when  so  directed  by  the  school 
committee  or  superintendent  in  writing,  prosecute  in  the  name 
of  the  city  or  town,  any  person  neglecting  to  perform  the  duties" 
prescribed  in   said   section,   by  promptly  entering  a  complaint 
before  a  magistrate;  and  said  officers  shall,  when  notified  by  any 
teacher  that  any  pupil  is  irregular  in  attendance,  arrest  and  take  Ti. 
such  pupil  to  school  when  found  truant;  and  further  such  offi- 
cers shall  enforce  the  provisions  of  sections  one  hundred  and 
eighteen  to  one  hundred  and  twenty,  inclusive,  of  this  chapter. 
Truant  officers,  when  so  directed  in  writing  by  the  superin-  officers  may 
tendent  of  schools  or  the  superintending  school  committee  of  Jess  estab- 
their  respective  towns  may  visit  the  manufacturing,  mechan- 


2O 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE. 


—compen- 
sation. 


Habitual 
truant  shall 
be  admon- 
ished  and 
punished. 
1899,  c.  80, 
§   4. 

1901,  c.  185, 
§   2. 


Penalty  for 

abetting 

truancy. 

1899,  c.  80, 

§   5. 

1905,  c.  48, 

5    11. 


ical.  mercantile  and  other  business  establishments  in  their  sev- 
eral cities  and  towns  during  the  hours  in  which  the  public  schools 
of  such  city  or  town  are  in  session,  and  ascertain  whether  any 
minors  under  the  a^e  of  fifteen  years  are  employed  therein,  and 
>hall  report  any  cases  of  such  employment  to  the  superintendent 
of  schools  or  the  superintending  school  committee  of  their  city 
or  town,  and  if  employed  therein  contrary  to  the  provisions  of 
chapter  forty,  shall  also  report  such  illegal  employment  to  the 
commissioner  of  labor.  The  owner,  superintendent,  overseer  or 
agent  of  all  manufacturing,  mechanical,  mercantile  or  other  busi- 
ness establishment,  upon  request,  shall  produce  for  the  inspec- 
tion of  such  truant  officers  all  certified  copies  of  records  of  birth 
and  baptism,  passports  and  age  and  schooling  certificates  re- 
quired to  be  kept  on  file  in  such  establishments  under  chapter 
forty  of  the  revised  statutes.  Every  city  or  town  neglecting  to 
elect  truant  officers,  and  truant  officers  neglecting  any  duty  re- 
quired of  them  under  the  provisions  of  this  chapter  shall  forfeit 
not  less  than  ten  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars.  The  municipal 
officers  shall  fix  the  compensation  of  the  truant  officers,  elected 
as  prescribed  in  this  section.  Superintending  school  committees 
may  fill  vacancies  occurring  during  the  year,  and  shall  elect  tru- 
ant officers  at  their  first  meeting  after  the  annual  meeting  of  the 
town  in  case  the  town  neglects  to  do  so,  or  the  truant  officers 
.elect,  or  any  of  them,  fail  to  qualify. 

SEC.  5-2.  If  a  child  without  sufficient  excuse,  shall  be  absent 
from  school  at  six  or  more  consecutive  sessions,  during  any  term, 
he  shall  be  deemed  an  habitual  truant,  and  the  superintending 
school  committee  shall  notify  him  and  any  person  under  whose 
control  he  may  be  that  unless  he  conforms  to  section  forty-nine, 
the  provisions  of  the  two  following  sections  will  be  enforced 
against  them ;  and  if  thereafter  such  child  continues  irregular  in 
attendance,  the  truant  officers  or  any  of  them  shall,  when  so 
directed  by  the  school  committee  or  superintendent  in  writing, 
enforce  said  provisions  by  complaint. 

SEC.  53.  Any  person  having  control  of  a  child,  who  is  an 
habitual  truant,  as  defined  in  the  foregoing  section,  and  being- 
in  any  way  responsible  for  such  truancy,  and  any  person  who 
induces  a  child  to  absent  himself  from  school,  or  harbors  or  con- 
ceals such  child  when  he  is  absent,  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine 
not  exceeding  twenty  dollars  or  shall  be  imprisoned  not  exceed- 
ing thirty  days. 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE).  21 


SEC.  54.     On  complaint  of  the  truant  officer  an  habitual  tru- 
ant,  if  a  boy,  may  be  committed  to  the  State  School  for  Boys.  ™ay  ,be. 

J  J    '  placed   In 

or  if  a  girl,  to  the  State  Industrial  School  for  Girls,  or  to  any  f  uij.a.bl.® 

*  institutions. 

truant    school   that   may.  hereafter   be   established.      Police   or  }8?9'  £•  80« 

§  §   b,  7.' 

municipal  courts  and  trial  justices  shall  have  jurisdiction  of  such  ~99|(  c<  48> 
complaint  and  of  the  offenses  described  in  sections  forty-nine, 
fifty-one  and  fifty-three.     All  warrants  issued  by  said  courts  orTj:uant 

-1  officers  may 

trial  justices  upon  such  complaint,  or  for  an  offense  committed 
under  said  sections  and  all  legal  processes  issued  by  said  courts 
or  trial  justices  for  the  purpose  of  carrying  into  effect  the  pro- 
visions of  this  section  and  of  said  sections  numbered  forty-nine, 
fifty-one  and  fifty-three,  may  be  directed  to  and  executed  by  the 
truant  officer,  or  either  of  the  truant  officers,  of  the  town  where 
the  offen?e  is  committed.  All  fines,  collected  under  said  two 
last  named  sections,  shall  be  paid  to  the  treasurer  of  the  city  or 
town  in  which  the  offense  is  committed,  for  the  support  of  the 
public  schools  therein. 


HIGH    SCHOOLS. 

State   aid   to 

SEC.  S>     ^"o  town  shall  receive  state  aid  for  the  maintenance  free  high 

JJ  schools. 

of  a  free  high  school  unless  its  appropriation  and  expenditure  R.  s.  c.  11, 
for  such  school  has  been  exclusive  of  the  amounts  required  by  1901,  c.  197, 
law  for  common  school  purposes.  1911,  c.  109. 

SEC.  s6.     Any  town  may  establish  and  maintain  not  exceeding  Free  high 

J  schools, 

two  free  high  schools;  and  in  such  case  shall  receive  the  same  town  may 

,     establish   two. 

state  aid  as  if  the  expenditures  of  both  schools  had  been  madeR.  s.  c.  11, 
for  one.     Two  or  more  adjoining  towns  may  unite  in  establish-^ 
in-g  and  maintaining  a  free  high  school,  and  both  shall  receive  towns  may 
the  same  state  aid  as  if  such  school  had  been  maintained  by  one  school. 
town.     Any  town  may,  in  addition  to  the  sums  raised  for  the  —conveyance 

.  of  pupils. 

support  of  high  and  common  schools,  raise  and  appropriate  a  1909,  c.  148. 
sum  for  the  payment  of  conveyance  of  pupils  attending  second- 
ary schools,  said  sum  to  be  expended  under  the  direction  of  the 
superintending  school  committee.  Towns  shall  receive  in  trust 
and  faithfully  expend  gifts  and  bequests  made  to  aid  in  the 
maintenance  of  free  high  schools,  and  shall  receive  aid  in  such 
cases  to  the  same  extent  and  on  the  same  conditions  as  if  such 
schools  had  been  established  and  maintained  by  taxation  ;  and 


*See  also  An  Act  for  the  improvement  of  Free  Hi^h  Schools  Chapter 
71,  P.  L.,  1909,  and  An  Act  additional  to  Chapter  71,  P.  L.,  1909,  Chapter 
196,  P.  L.,  1909. 


22 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE. 


—funds  any  town  shall  receive  such  state  aid  on  any  expenditure  for  a 
"free  high  school  or  schools,  made  from  the  funds  or  proceeds 
of  the  real  estate  of  an  academy  or  incorporated  institution  of 
learning,  surrendered  or  transferred  to  such  town  for  educa- 

-penaity  for  tional  purpose :  but  if  any  part  of  the  money  so  paid  bv  the 

misapplying  ,     ,     .  ,  .     '        . 

money  ap-  state,  is  expended  for  any  other  purpose  than  the  support  of 
by°statef  such  free  high  schools,  as  provided  by  this  section,  then  each 
person  so  misapplying  said  money  forfeits  double  the  sum  so 
misapplied,  to  be  recovered  in  an  action  of  debt,  in  the  name 
and  to  the  use  of  the  town,  by  any  inhabitant  thereof ;  and  no 
town  shall  receive  further  support  from  the  state  for  any  free 
high  school,  until  the  amount  so  received,  but  misapplied,  has 
been  raised  and  expended  for  such  free  high  schools  by  such 
town. 

SEC.  57.  The  inhabitants  of  any  section  of  a  town  which 
fails  or  neglects  to  provide  for  the  maintenance  of  free  high 
schools,  may  organize  a  free  high  school  precinct  in  the  man- 
ner hereinafter  provided,  and  may  establish  and  maintain  a  free 
high  school  therein,  and  receive  state  aid  the  same  as  the  town 
might  have  done;  provided,  that  no  more  than  two  such  free 
high  schools  shall  be  established  in  any  town,  and  that  the 
amount  of  aid  extended  to  the  precincts  in  any  town  shall  not 
exceed  the  sum  that  the  town  might  have  received.  On  petition 
of  any  five  voters  resident  in  said  section,  reciting  the  limits  of 
the  precinct  proposed,  the  municipal  officers  of  the  town  shall 
call  a  meeting  of  the  voters  within  said  limits  by  causing  notices, 
specifying  the  time,  place  and  purposes  of  said  meeting,  to  be 
posted  in  two  or  more  conspicuous  places  within  said  limits 
seven  days  before  the  time  appointed.  Said  meeting  shall  choose 
a  moderator  and  a  clerk  who  shall  be  sworn,  and  shall,  by  a 
majority  vote  of  those  present  and  voting,  determine  whether 
said  precinct  shall  be  organized.  It  shall  choose  an  agent  who 
shall  be  duly  sworn.  Such  precinct  may  continue  its  organ- 
ization from  year  to  year  by  the  holding  of  meetings  called  in 
adjoining8  °f  the  manner  aforesaid,  so  long  as  the  town  shall  neglect  or  refuse 
to  support  free  high  schools.  Sections  of  adjoining  towns  may 
organize  as  herein  provided,  and  unite  in  the  support  of  such 
schools.  But  no  more  than  two  such  precincts  shall  exist  at  the 
same  time  in  any  town. 


Inhabitants 
of  any  sec- 
tion of  a 
town  may 
maintain 
free  high 
school. 
1893,  c.  216, 


— officers, 
how  chosen, 
powers  and 
duties. 


precincts. 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE. 


SEC.  58.     Any  town,  precinct  or  union  of  towns  or  precincts,  Location. 
voting  to  establish  a  free  high  school  as  herein  provided,  may  §  30- 
locate  the  same  permanently,  or  vote  that  the  terms  thereof  be 
held  alternately  in  such  places  within  the  town  or  towns,  pre- 
cinct or  precincts,  as  may  be  selected,  and  as  may  accept  said 


school.     The  town  or  precinct,  in  which  said  school  is  thus  held,—  s 

rooms,   etc., 


shall  supply  appropriate  equipments,  and  furnish  and  warm 
suitable  building  for  the  same;  provided  that  any  schoolhouse  nisned- 
within  such  town  or  precinct  may  be  used  for  such  free  high 
school,  when  not  required  for  ordinary  school  purposes. 

SEC.  S9-     The  course  of  studv  in  the  free  high  schools,  shall  course  or 

3y  study  and 

embrace  the  ordinary  English  academic  studies  which  are  taught  what  it  shair 

.  .     embrace. 

in    secondary   schools,   especially  the   natural   sciences    in   their  R.  s.  c.  11, 
application  to  mechanics,  manufactures  and  agriculture;  but  the  1897,  c.  299. 
ancient  or  modern   languages   and  music   shall   not  be  taught 
therein  except  by  direction  of  the  superintending  school  com- 

o  1  i_     •  —  scnools  tG 

mittees  having  supervision  thereof.  Such  schools,  when  estab-  be  free. 
lished  by  any  town  or  union  of  towns,  shall  be  free  to  all  the 
youth  in  such  town  or  towns  who  have  such  scholastic  attain- 
ments as  will  fit  them  to  attend  such  schools  with  profit,  and 
the  superintendent,  or  superintending  school  committee,  having 
supervision  thereof  shall  make  such  examination  of  candidates 
for  admission  to  said  schools  as  they  consider  necessary. 

When  such  school  is  established  by  any  precinct  or  union  of  —precincts 

or  union  of 

precincts,  it  shall  be  free  in  the  same  manner  to  the  scholars  precinct*. 

within  such  precincts,   and  open   also  to  scholars  passing  the 

required  examination  from  without  such  precincts,  but  within 

the  towns  in  which  said  precincts  are  situated,  on  payment  to 

the  agent  of  the  precinct  in  which  such  school  is  located,  of  such 

tuition,  to  be  fixed  by  the  superintending  school  committee  or 

committees  having  supervision  of  the  same,  as  is  equivalent  to 

the  cost  of  a  scholar  of  maintaining  such  school,  after  deducting 

the  aid  extended  by  the  state.     Whenever  in  the  judgment  (^committee 

the  superintending  school  committees  having  the  supervision  of 

any  free  high  school  or  schools,  the  number  of  pupils  in  the 

same  may  be  increased  without  detriment,  scholars  from  with- 

out the  towns  directly  interested  in  such  school  or  schools,  may 

be  admitted  to  the  same  on  passing  the  required  examination 

and  paying  such  tuition  as  may  be  fixed  by  such  committee,  to 

the  treasurer  of  the  town  in  which  the  school  is  kept,  when  the 


SCHOOL  LAWS  01?  MAINE:. 


Free  high 
schools 
subject  to 
school  laws. 


— how  man- 
aged, estab- 
lished by 
towns. 

—established 
by   a  union 
of  towns. 


— established 
by  a  precinct 


—established 
by  rvrecinrts 
in   different 
towns. 


Towns  may 
raise  money 
to  maintain 
free   high 
srhools. 

C.  11, 
5    33. 

Provisions 
for  pupils 
in   towns 
having  no 
free  high 
schools. 
R.  S.  c.  11. 
§    34. 
1899,  c.  6. 
1905,  c.  48, 
5  13. 
1911,  c.  88. 


school  is  maintained  by  a  town  or  union  of  towns,  or  to  the 
imvnt  of  the  precinct  in  which  the  school  is  kept,  when  such 
school  is  maintained  by  a  precinct  or  union  of  precincts. 

SEC.  60.  Free  high  schools,  established  and  maintained  under 
the  foregoing  provisions,  are  subject  to  the  laws  relating  to 
common  schools,  so  far  as  applicable,  except  as  otherwise  pro- 
vided. When  established  and  maintained  by  a  town,  they  shall 
be  under  the  supervision  and  entire  management  of  the  super- 
intending school  committee  of  such  town.  When  established 
and  maintained  by  a  union  of  towns,  such  school  shall  be  under 
the  supervision  and  entire  management  of  the  school  commit- 
tees of  such  towns,  who  constitute  a  joint  board  for  that  pur- 
pose. When  established  and  maintained  by  any  precinct,  such 
school  shall  be  under  the  supervision  of  the  superintending 
cpmmittee  of  such  town,  or  of  the  state  superintendent,  when 
the  precinct  so  elects,  and  under  the  financial  management  of 
the  agent  of  the  precinct,  who,  in  connection  with  said  commit- 
tee or  superintendent,  shall  employ  teachers  for  the  same. 
When  established  and  maintained  by  precincts  composed  of  sec- 
tions of  adjoining  towns,  such  school  shall  be  under  the  super- 
vision' of  the  superintending  school  committee  of  such  towns, 
who  constitute  a  joint  board  for  that  purpose,  and  under  the 
financial  management  of  the  agents  of  both  precincts,  who,  in 
connection  with  said  committees,  shall  employ  the  teachers. 
'  SEC.  61.  Towns  and  precincts  may  raise  money  for  establish- 
ing and  maintaining  free  high  schools,  and  erecting  buildings 
and  providing  equipments  for  the  same,  in  the  same  manner  as 
for  supporting  common  schools  'and  erecting  schoolhouses. 

SEC.  62.  Any  town  which  does  not  maintain  a  free  high 
school  of  standard  grade  may,  from  year  to  year,  authorize  its 
superintending  school  committee  to  contract  with  and  pay  the 
superintending  school  committee  of  any  adjoining-  town  or  the 
trustees  of  any  academy  located  within  such  town  or  in  an  ad- 
joining town,  for  the  tuition  of  scholars  within  said  town  in  the 
studies  contemplated  by  the  seven  preceding  sections.  When 
such  contract  has  been  made  with  the  trustees  of  an  academy 
a  joint  committee  for  the  selection  of  teachers  and  the  arrange- 
ment of  the  course  of  study  in  such  academy  shall  include  the 
superintending  school  committees  of  the  contracting  towns  with 
an  equal  number  of  members  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  such 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  MAINE;.  25 

academy  when  such  academy  has  less  than  ten  thousand  dollars 
endowment.     The  expenditure  of  any  town  for  tuition  as  pro- — towns 

J  entitled  to 

vided  in  this  section  shall  be  subject  to  the  same  conditions  and  state  aid- 
shall  entitle  such  town  to  the  same  state  aid  as  if  it  had  made 
such  expenditure  for  a  free  high  school. 

SEC.  63.     Any  vouth  who  resides  with  a  parent  or  guardian  Persons  re- 
siding in 
m  anv  town  which  does  not  support  and  maintain  a  free  high  towns  not 

supporting 

school  giving  at  least  one  four  years'  course  properly  equipped  free  high 
and  teaching  such  subjects  as  are  taught  in  secondary  schools  m&y  attend 

in  other 

ot  standard  grade  in  this  state  may  attend  any  school  in  the  state  towns. 

1903,  c.  68, 

which  does  have  such  a  four  years'  course  and  to  which  he  may  §  1. 

'    1907,  c.   73. 

gain  entrance  by  permission  of  those  having  charge  thereof,  1909,  c.  ne. 
provided  said  youth  shall  attend  a  school  or  schools  of  standard  —proviso, 
grade  which  are  approved  by  the  state  superintendent  of  public 
schools,  and  provided  also  the  said  youth  shall  have  satisfactorily 
passed  an  examination  conducted  by  the  superintendent  of 
schools  of  the  town  in  which  he  has  residence,  papers  for  said 
examination  having  been  procured  from  the  state  superintendent 
of  public  schools.  In  such  case  the  tuition  of  such  youth,  not  to 
exceed  thirty  dollars  annually  for  any  one  youth,  shall  be  paid 
by  the  town  in  which  he  resides  as  aforesaid,  as  long  as  such 
youth  maintains  good  standing  in  such  school,  and  said  tuition 
so  paid  shall  be  made  a  part  of  the  high  school  fund  of  the  town 
receiving  the  same ;  and  towns  shall  raise  annually,  as  other 
school  moneys  are  raised,  a  sum  sufficient  to  pay  such  tuition 
charges. 

SEC.  64.     When  any  town  shall  have  been  required  to  pay  and  Returns  to 
has  paid  tuition  as  aforesaid  the  superintending  school  commit- 1903,  c.  68, 
tee  of  such  town  shall  make  a  return  under  oath  to  the  state  1909,  c.  112. 
superintendent  of  public  schools  before  the  first  clay  of  Septem- 
ber for  the  preceding  school  year,  stating  the  name  of  each  youth 
for  whom  tuition  has  been  paid,  the  amount  paid  for  each,  and 
the  name  and  location  of  the  school  which  each  has  attended 
and  thereupon  shall  be  paid,  annually  in  the  month  of  December, 

— partial 

from  the  state  treasury  out  of  the  appropriation  for  the  support  reimburse- 
of  free  high  schools,  to  each  town  paying  tuition  and  making m 
return  as  aforesaid,  a  sum  equal  to  two-thirds  of  the  amount 
thus  paid  by  such  town  not  exceeding  five  hundred  dollars. 


26  SCHOOL    LAWS    0?    MAINE. 

superintend-       -SEC.  65.     Superintendents  shall,  annually,  before  the  first  day 
Schools  shall  of  July,  make  returns  under  oath  to  the  state  superintendent,  on 

make    annual  *  , 

return  to        blanks  prepared  and  sent  out  by  him,  of  the  amount  appropn- 

state  super-  *  ,  ... 

mtendent.       ated  and  the  amount  expended  by  each  town  or  precinct  lor 

f'sl'. °'  1  '_    instruction  in  such  free  high  schools  during  the  current  year; 

also  of  the  amount  appropriated  and  the  amount  expended  for 

1909,  c.  28.  ,  .    ,     .     .        V, 

common  school  purposes  by  each  town  maintaining  the  same; 
the  number  of  weeks  during  which  such  schools  have  been 
taught ;  the  wages  paid  each  teacher ;  the  number  of  pupils  reg- 
istered; the  average  attendance;  the  number  of  pupils  in  each 
branch  of  study  pursued,  and  the  amount  received  for  tuition. 
If  the  state  superintendent  is  satisfied  that  the  provisions  of 
ent  to  certify  sections  fiftv-five  to  sixtv-two  have  been  complied  with,  he  shall 

amounts  to  M     ,  ,  .   ,  , 

which  towns    certifv  to  the  QrOvernor  and  council  the  sum  which  each  town 

are  entitled.  .         . 

or  precinct  is  entitled  to  receive  from  the  state.  Any  town  or 
precinct,  dissatisfied  with  his  decision,  may  appeal  to  the  gov- 
ernor and  council  and  the  governor  and  council  shall  issue  a  cer- 
tificate to  the  treasurer  of  the  town  or  agent  of  the  precinct,  for 
such  amount  as  they  adjudge  such  town  or  precinct  entitled  to 
receive  from  the  state  treasury.  Any  person  connected  with 

—penalty  .for 

defrauding  the  management  of  such  free  high  schools,  either  as  teacher, 
agent  or  superintendent,  who  in  any  way  aids  or  abets  in  de- 
frauding the  state  into  the  payment  in  support  of  said  schools 
of  more  than  is  contemplated  by  this  chapter,  shall  forfeit  not 
less  than  five  hundred  dollars,  or  be  imprisoned  in  the  county 
jail  not  less  than  one  year. 

High  school        SEC.  66.     When  a  free  high  school  precinct  votes  to  raise 
taxesnchow      money  for  establishing  and  maintaining  a  free  high  school,  its 
collected. a°     clerk  shall  forthwith,  or  within  the  time  prescribed  by  the  pre- 
R.^S.  c.  11,     cjnc^  certit-y  tjie  amoimt  thereof  to  the  assessors  of  the  town, 
16'  and  the  time  when  it  must  be  raised ;  and  within  sixty  days  after 
receiving  such  certificate  they  shall  assess  it  as  they  do  town 
taxes,  on  the  polls  and  estates  of  the  residents  and  owners  in 
the  precinct  at  the  time  of  raising  said  money",  whether  wholly 
in  their  town  or  not,  and  on  the  non-resident  real  estate  in  the 
precinct.     They  shall  then  make  their  warrant  in  due  form  of 
law.  directed  to  any  collector  of  their  town  if  any,  if  not  to  a 
constable,  requiring  him  to  levy  and  collect  such  tax  and  pay  it 
to  the  town  treasurer  within  the  time  limited  in  the  warrant ; 
and  they  shall  give  a  certificate  of  the  assessment  to  such  treas- 
urer, and  may  abate  such  taxes  as  in  the  case  of  town  taxes. 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE). 

SEC.  67.     The  assessors  may  include  in  their  assessment  , 

amnorizea 

sum  over  and  above  the  sum  committed  to  them  to  assess,  not to  assess  5 

per  cent 

exceeding  five  per  cent,  thereof,  as  a  fractional  division  renders  £vegla£-    • 
necessary,  and  certify  that  fact  to  the  town  treasurer.  §  76. 

SEC.  68.     The  town  treasurer  shall  pay  the  expense  of  assess-  Expense  of 

.  .  .  assessment, 

ing  and  collecting  any  free  high  school  precinct  tax  out  of  the  h<>w  paid, 
money  of  the  precinct,  upon  the  order  of  the  selectmen.  §  77. 

SEC.  69.     Section  thirty-one  of  chapter  ten,  and  all  other  sec-  Precinct 

taxes 

tions  relating  to  the  same  subject  apply  to  taxes  assessed  bv  or  assessed 

rr  J  "  without 

for  free  high   school  precincts,   so   far  as   applicable;  but  the  authority, 
precinct  and  not  the  town  is  liable.  §'78. 

SEC.  70.     The  collector  or  constable,  and  the  town  treasurer,  Powers  and 

.  duties  of 

or  treasurer  and  collector,  if  one  person  is  both,  each  have  the  collectors ; 
same  powers  and  are  subject  to  the  same  duties  and  obligations pensation. 
in  relation  to  free  high  school  precinct  taxes,  as  to  town  taxes;  §'79'. 
and  they  and  the  assessors  shall  be  allowed  by  the  precinct  for 
their  services,  a  compensation  proportionate  to  what  they  receive 
from  the  town  for  similar  services. 

SEC.  71.     The  monev  so  raised  and  paid  shall  be  at  the  dis-  Money  at    ' 

,  .  .        ",  disposal    of 

posal  of  the  precinct  agent,  to  be  by  him  expended  as  provided  agent, 
in  section  sixty.  §'so'. 

SEC.  72.     The  trustees  of  any  academy  or  other  corporation  Trustees  of 

.      .  academies, 

formed  for  educational  purposes  may  by  a  majority  vote  01  etc.,  may 

.  ,      .  ,     ,      surrender 

such  of  said  trustees  as  reside  in  the  state,  surrender  the  whole,  property  to 

.  .  .    .         establish 

or  any  part  of  the  property  belonging  thereto,  to  the  municipal  free  high 

..  ,,..,.  schools. 

officers  of  any  town,  or  the  trustees  of  any  school  fund  in  any  R.  s.  c.  11. 
town  in  which  said  academy  or  corporation  is  situated,  for  turn- 
ing the  same  into  a  free  high  school  as  hereinafter  provided, 
and  said  municipal  officers  or  trustees,  for  the  time  being,  shall 
be  a  board  of  trustees  to  take  and  hold  said  property  for  main- 
taining a  free  high  school ;  and  upon  receiving  said  property, ' 
they  shall  use  proper  diligence  to  make  the  same  produce  income 
for  the  support  of  said  free  high  school. 

SEC.  73.     When  such  vote  is  so  passed,  the  treasurer  of  said  {^perty, 
trustees  shall  convey,  assign  and  deliver  to  the  municipal  officers  ^ey|d-c  1:, 
of  said  town,  or  the  trustees,  of  such  fund,  all  property  belong-  §  ST. 
ing  to  said  academy  or  corporation  for  the  purposes  indicated 
by  the  preceding  section. 

SEC.  74.     The  municipality  accepting  the  property  in  trust,  as  pSSpStjr? 

'^  1     it  1        1        •     '  ^u  r  how  applied, 

named  in  section  seventy-two,  shall  apply  the  income  thereof  R.  s.  c.  11, 

§    38. 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE. 


— qualifica- 
tion of 
pupils,  how 
determined. 


Tuition  to  be 
paid  by  non- 
residents. 
R.  S.  c.  11, 
§  39. 


Academies 
giving  in- 
struction 
equivalent 
to  that 
given  by 
high  schools 
entitled  to 
annual 
stipend. 
1901,  .c.   148, 

1907,  c.  102, 


— maintain- 
ing a  college 
preparatory 
course. 


— maintain- 
ing in  addi- 
tion a  train- 
ing-course. 


—state  aid 
not  to  ex- 
ceed total 
income. 


— provide 
instruction 
for  at  least 
thirty   weeks 
in  each  year. 


towards  the  support  of  a  free  high  school,  to  be  kept  within  said 
municipality,  at  least  twenty-two  weeks  in  each  year,  and  pro- 
vide suitable  accommodations  for  the  same,  and  the  superintend- 
ing school  committee  in  said  municipality  shall  determine  the 
qualifications  necessary  to  entitle  any  applicant  to  enter  or 
attend  said  free  high  school,  and  no  one  shall  attend  it  without 
certificate  of  said  officers  to  that  effect. 

SEC.  75.  All  scholars  residing  within  the  municipality  afore- 
said, having  such  certificate,  may  attend  said  school  without 
tuition  fee,  and  all  scholars  not  residents  of  said  municipality, 
may  attend  said  school  upon  such  terms  ancl  ^conditions  as  said 
superintending  school  committee  may  impose. 

SEC.  76.     Whenever  it  shall  be  made  to  appear  to  the  gov- 
ernor and  council,  from  returns  made  as  HereiiTprovided,  that 
any  incorporated  academy  in  the  state  is  prepared  to  give  in- 
struction equivalent  to  that  required  by  law  to  be  given  in  free 
high  schools,  that  the  pupils  attending  the  said  academy,  are 
qualified  to  receive  such  instruction,  and  that  the  teachers  in 
the  said  academy  have  the  qualifications  fitting  them  to  give  in- 
struction in  secondary  school  studies,   such  academy  shall  be 
entitled  to  receive  annually  from  the  state  a  sum  not  exceeding 
five  hundred  dollars  in  case  it  maintains  an  English  secondary 
school  course  of  study  as  prescribed  by  the  state  superintendent 
of  public  schools,  or  a  sum  not  exceeding  seven  hundred  and 
fifty  dollars  in  case  it  maintains  in  addition  to  an  English  course, 
a  college  preparatory  course,  or  a  sum  not  exceeding  one  thou- 
sand dollars  in  case  it  maintains  an  English  course,  a  college 
preparatory  course  and  a  training  course  for  teachers,  provided 
the  courses  of  study  herein  named  shall  be  subject  to  the  ap- 
proval of  the  state  superintendent  of  public  schools,  and  pro- 
vided that  the  amount  paid  by  the  state  to  any  academy  under 
section  shall  be  expended  by  the  said  academy  for  instruc- 
tion during  the  year  for  which  payment  is  made/and  shall  not 
exceed  the  total  income  of  tlie  said  academy  from  all  other 
sources ;  and  provided  further,  that  in  addition  to  the  amount 
received  from  the  state,  a  sum  equal  thereto  shall  be  expended 
r  instruction  and  maintenance  of  the  academy  durin-  said 

Lm;  S  p;°;ided;urt!;er' that  ™*  ^  2*S  i£ 

cm  the  state  under  this  section  shall  provide  instruction  as 
contemplated  by  this  section  for  not  less  than  thirty  weeks  in 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE.  29 

each  year;  and  provided  further,  that  no  academy  shall  be 
credited  with  maintaining  a  course  of  study  under  this  section 
unless  the  said  academy  shall  have  an  average  of  not  less  than 
twelve  students  in  said  course. 

SEC.  77.     The  governor  and  council  may  draw  warrants  on  How  pay. 
the  treasurer  of  state  for  the  .payment  annually  to  the  legal  rep-  bieimade.a11 
resentatives  of   such  academies,  as  shall  be  entitled  to  receive  J9^1'  °'  148' 
money  from  the  state  under  the  preceding  section,  at  the  times 
and  in  the  manner  provided  by  law  for  the  payment  of  money 
in  aid  of  free  high  schools,  the  amounts  to  which  they  shall  be 
severally  entitled  thereunder;  provided,  that  no  payment  shall 
be  made  to  any  academy  until  the  state  superintendent  of  public 
schools  shall  have  certified  to  the  governor  and  council  all  the 
facts  which  by  law  are  made  necessary  to  entitle  an  academy  to 
receive  money  from  the  state  under  the  preceding  section. 

SKC.  78.     Anv  town  providing  free  tuition  for  its  high  school  Towns  pro- 
viding free 
scholars  in  any  academy,  shall  receive  state  aid  to  the  amount  tuition  shall 

receive  aid 

of  one-half  the  sum  expended  for  such  instruction,  provided,  no  from  the 

state. 

town  shall  receive  more  than  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  in  1901,  c.  148, 
any  given  year ;  and  provided  further,  that  no  town  shall  receive 
state  aid  under  this  section  if  a  free  high  school  of  standard 
grade  is  maintained  in  said  town. 

SKC.  79.     Xo  academy  shall  receive  state  aid  under  section  incorpora- 
scventy-six  unless  incorporated  prior  to  May  one,  nineteen  him- 1901,  c.  148, 
dred  and  seven.  1907,  c.  91. 

SEC.  80.     Xo  academy  shall  receive  state  aid  under  section  Attendance, 
seventy-six  unless  the  average  attendance  in  said  academy  for  g9^1'  c< 
the  year  preceding  or  for  five  years  next  preceding  shall  exceed  §92.'5  c< 
thirty   students,   and  no  academy   shall   receive  to  exceed   five 
hundred  dollars  unless  the  average  attendance  in  said  academy 
for  the  year  preceding  shall  exceed  sixty  students. 

SEC.  81.     Xo  academy  shall  receive  state  aid  under  section  income, 
seventy-six  if  said  academy  has.  an  annual  income  from  invested  §  e. ' 
funds  exceeding  sixteen  hundred  dollars,  and  no  academy  shall  1909^  c.  102, 
receive  state  aid  to  exceed  five  hundred  dollars  in  any  given  § 
year  provided  the  said   academy  has   an  annual  income   from 
invested  funds  exceeding  one  thousand  dollars.* 


*See    also    An    Act    for    the    encouragement    of    Industrial    Education, 
Chapter   1SS,   P.   L.,   1911. 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE. 


Institutions 
receiving 
state  aid 
shall  make 
report  to 
state  super- 
intendent. 
1897,  c.  246. 
1901.  c.  118, 
§  7. 


e  aid, 


— word 
"academy" 
includes 
"seminary 
or  institute.' 


SEC.  82.  Every  educational  institution  receiving  state 
and  the  officers  and  teachers  of  every  academy  receiving  money 
from  the  state  under  the  six  preceding  sections,  shall  annually, 
on  or  before  the  first  day  of  January,  report  to  the  state  superin- 
tendent of  public  schools  the  total  and  average  attendance,  an 
itemized  account  of  all  the  moneys  received  and  expended  dur- 
ing the  preceding  year,  the  number  of  instructors,  number  and 
length  of  terms,  with  attendance  for  each,  and  answer  such 
other  questions  as  he  shall  require,. and  shall  make  such  further 
report  to  him  as  he  may  from  time  to  time  require.  Such 
reports  shall  be  published  in  the  annual  report  of  the  state 
superintendent  of  public  schools.  Every  such  educational  insti- 
tution failing  to  comply  with  the  above  requirements  shall  for- 
feit whatever  aid  or  assistance  it  would  otherwise  receive  from 
the  state.  Wherever  in  sections  seventy-six  to  eighty-two  inclu- 
sive, the  word  "academy"  occurs,  it  shall  be  construed  to  include 
"seminary  or  institute." 


Presidents 

of  colleges, 

tenure  of 

office. 

R.  S.  c.  11, 

§  123. 

Fees  for 
degrees. 
R.  S.  c.  11, 
§  124. 


Teachers  to 
keep  school 
register. 
R.  S.  c.  11, 
5  9G. 


— payment 
for  teachers' 
services. 
1909,  c.  74. 


DUTIES   AND    QUALIFICATIONS   OF    INSTRUCTORS. 

SEC.  83.  Presidents  of  colleges  are  removable  at  the  pleas- 
ure of  the  trustees  and  overseers,  whose  concurrence  is  neces- 
sary for  their  election. 

SEC.  84.  No  officer  of  a  college  shall  receive  as  perquisites 
any  fees  for  a  diploma  or  medical  degree  conferred  by  such 
college,  but  such  fees  shall  be  paid  into  the  college  treasury. 

SEC.  85.  Every  teacher  of  a  public  school  shall  keep  a  regis- 
ter thereof,  containing  the  names  of  all  the  scholars  who  enter 
the  school,  their  ages,  the  dates  of  each  scholar's  entering  and 
leaving,  the  number  of  days  during  which  each  attended,  the 
length  of  the  school,  the  teacher's  wages,  a  list  of  text-books 
used,  and  all  other  facts  required  by  the  blank  form  furnished 
him ;  such  register  shall  at  all  times  be  open  to  tfre  inspection  of 
the  school  committee,  and  be  returned  to  them  at  the  close  of  the 
school.  Teachers  may  be  paid  for  their  services  at  the  close  of 
each  school  month,  but  no  teacher  shall  receive  final  payment 
.for  services  for  any  term  until  the  register  herein  described, 
properly  filled,  completed,  and  signed,  is  deposited  with  the 
school  committee,  or  with  a  person  designated  by  them  to  re- 
ceive it. 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE.  31 

SEC.  86.     The  presidents,  professors  and  tutors  of  colleges.  Pu^es  fof 

'  instructors 

the  preceptors  and  teachers  of  academies,  and  all  other  instruct-  <£  ygUch'1:l 
ors  of  youth,  in  public  or  private  institutions,  shall  use  their  §  97- 
best  endeavors  to  impress  on  the  minds  of  the  children  and 
youth  committed  to  their  care  and  instruction,  the  principles  of 
morality  and  justice,   and  a  sacred  regard  for  truth;  love  of 
country,  humanity  and  a  universal  benevolence  ;  sobriety,  indus- 
try and  frugality  ;  chastity,  moderation  and  temperance  ;  and  all 
other  virtues  which  ornament  human  society  ;  and  to  lead  those 
under  their  care,  as  their  ages  and  capacity  admit,  into  a  par- 
ticular understanding  of  the  tendency  of  such  virtues  to  preserve 
and  perfect  a  republican  constitution,  secure  the  blessings  of 
liberty,  and  to  promote  their  future  happiness  ;  and  the  tendency 
of   the   opposite   vices,   to   slavery,   degradation   and   ruin  ;   all 
teachers  in  the  public  schools  of  the  state  shall  devote  not  less  —kindness 
than  ten  minutes  of  each  week  of  the  school  term,  to  teaching  and  animals 
to  the  children  under  their  charge,  the  principles  of  kindness  to  taught.6 

1  .     .  ,  ,  1891,  c.  29. 

birds  and  animals. 


SEC.  87.  Whoever  teaches  a  public  school  without  first  ob- 
taining  a  certificate  from  the  superintendent  of  schools  of  the 
town,  forfeits  not  exceeding  the  sum  contracted  for  his  daily  f  '93'.  c' 
wages,  for  each  day  he  so  teaches,  and  is  barred  from  receiving 
pay  therefor  ;  and  no  certificate  shall  be  valid  for  more  than  one 
year,  without  the  approval  of  the  superintendent  of  schools 
annually  endorsed  thereon. 

SEC.  88.     The  following  days  shall  be  observed  as  school  holi-  school 
days,   namely:    New   Year's   day,  January  one;  Washington's  1901,  0/202. 
birthday,  February  twenty-two  ;  Patriot's  day,  April  nineteen  ;  §  14.' 
Memorial  day,  May  thirty;  Independence  day,  July  four;  Labor  §  i.  '  ' 
day,  first  Monday  in  September  ;  Columbus  day,  October  twelve  ;  §9i.9'  ' 
Christmas  day,  December  twenty-five  ;  Thanksgiving  and  Arbor  19 
clays,  as  appointed  by  the  governor  and  council.     Provided,  how-  Regarding 
ever,  that  Arbor  day  shall  not  be  recognized  as  a  school  holiday, 
unless  observed  by  teacher  and  pupils  for  the  purpose  for  which 
it  is  designated  by  the  governor  and  council.     All  teachers  of 
public  schools  in  the  state  may  close  their  schools  on  the  daysbe 
above  mentioned  and  draw  pay  the  same  as  if  their  schools  had 
been  in  session  upon  those  days.     When  any  one  of  the  above 
named  holidays  falls  upon  a  Sunday,  the  Monday  following  shall 
be  observed  as  a  school  holiday,  with  all  the  privileges  applying 


SCHOOL    LAWS    Ol-     MAINE. 


— Lincoln 
day. 


to  any  of  the  days  above  named.  February  twelve  shall  be 
observed  by  the  teachers  and  pupils  in  all  the  public  schools  of 
the  state  as  Lincoln  day,  some  part  of  which  day,  as  far  as  may 
be  expedient,  shall  be  devoted  to  the  study  of  the  life  and  char- 
acter of  Abraham  Lincoln.  When  Lincoln  day  falls  on  a  Satur- 
day or  Sunday  the  observance  of  the  same  shall  be  as  above 
slated  on  the  following  Monday. 


Teachers 
and  school 
officers  may 
form  asso- 
ciations. 
1885,   c.   273, 

1893,   c.   283. 

— may  hold 
conventions. 


— expenses, 
how  -paid. 


— proviso. 


Teachers 
may  suspend 
schools  dur- 
ing conven- 
tions. 

1885,  c.  273, 
§   2. 


Certificates 
showing 
attendance 
must  be 
presented. 


Governor  to 
draw  war- 
rants to  pay 
expenses. 
1885,  c.  273, 

1909,  c.  30. 


TEACHERS'  ASSOCIATIONS. 

SEC.  89.  Whenever  not  less  than  thirty  of  the  teachers  and 
school  officers  of  any  county  shall  have  formed  an  association 
under  rules  of  government  approved  by  the  state  superintendent 
of  public  schools,  for  the  purpose  of  mutual  improvement  in  the 
science  and  art  of  teaching,  and  of  creating  popular  interest  in, 
and  diffusing  a  knowledge  of  the  best  methods  of  improving  our 
public  school  system,  by  the  holding  of  conventions  at  least  once 
every  year  under  the  supervision  of  the  state  superintendent,  the 
state  shall  defray  the  necessary  expenses  attending  the  holding 
of  such  convention  for  which  purpose  the  sum  of  one  thousand 
dollars  is  hereby  annually  appropriated  to  be  deducted  and  set 
aside  therefor  by  the  treasurer  of  state  from  the  annual  school 
fund  of  the  state;  provided,  hoivei'er,  that  no  more  than  two 
such  associations  shall  be  formed  in  any  county,  and  that  the 
expenses  as  aforesaid  of  no  more  than  two  conventions  of  any 
such  association  in  any  year  shall  be  defrayed  by  the  state. 

SEC.  90.  Teachers  of  public  schools  may  suspend  their 
schools  for  not  more  than  two  days  in  any  year  during  the  ses- 
sions of  such  conventions  within  their  counties  and  also  for  not 
more  than  two  days  in  any  year  during  the  sessions  of  any  state 
teachers*  convention  approved  by  the  state  superintendent  of 
public  schools,  unless  otherwise  directed  in  writing  by  the  school 
officers,  and  attend  said  conventions  without  forfeiture,  of  pay 
for  the  time  of  such  attendance,  provided  they  shall  present  to 
the  officers  employing  them,  certificates  signed  by  the  secretaries 
of  such  conventions  and  countersigned  by  the  state  superin- 
tendent of  public  schools,  showing  such  attendance. 

SEC.  91.  The  governor  and  council  may  draw  warrants  on 
the  treasurer  of  state  for  the  payment  of  bills  for  the  expenses 
provided  for  in  section  eighty-nine,  'when  such  bills  shall  have 
been  approved  by  the  state  superintendent  of  public  schools, 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OE    MAINE-  33 

provided,  however,  that  no  bills  shall  be  so  paid  except  those  for 
advertising  such  conventions,  and  for  services  and  actual  travel- 
ing expenses  of  speakers  and  lecturers  not  residing  in  the  coun- 
ties in  which  such  conventions  are  held. 


SCHOOLS    IX    PLANTATIONS    AND    UNORGANIZED    TOWNSHIPS. 

SEC.  92.     Plantations  have  the  same  powers  and  liabilities 
towns  for  electing  superintending  school  committees,  superin- 
tendents  of  schools,  treasurers  and  collectors,  and  for  raising,  f'9|;  c*  llf 
assessing  and  collecting  school  money,  to  be  apportioned  and 1J 
expended  as  in  towns.     The  assessors  of  plantations  may  take 
a  census  of  the  inhabitants  thereof,  at  the  expense  of  the  planta- 
tion, and  when  so  taken,  the  money  raised  therein  for  schools 
shall  be  upon  the  basis  of  such  census  and  not  upon  the  census 
of  the  state. 

SEC.  93.     All  moneys  due  plantations  from  the  state  treasury  ^c^yS  Of 
lor  school  purposes,  shall  be  paid  to  the  treasurers  of  such  plan-  j^^!0118' 
tations,  under  the  same  conditions  as  in  case  of  towns,  and  theP®°Jcd-   9C1 

loot)).    C.     ^OJ_» 

same   shall  be  expended  by  such  plantations,  under  the  same 
restrictions  and  limitations  as  are  required  of  towns. 

SEC.  94.     Whenever  in  any  unorganized  township  in  the  state 
there  shall  be  two  or  more  children  between  the  ages  of  five  and 
twenty-one  years,  the  state  superintendent  of  public  schools  shall 
cause  an  enumeration  of  said  children  to  be  made,  and  returned  |899'  c>  89» 
to  him,  and  shall  provide   for  the  schooling  of   said  children, 
either  by  establishing  a  school  in  the  township,  or  by  sending  the 
children  to  schools  in  adjoining  towns  or  plantations,  or  both, 
as  shall  by  him  be  deemed  expedient.     In  case  any  of  said  chil- 
dren are,  by  the  state  superintendent,  sent  to  schools  in  adjoin- 
ing towns  or  plantations,  said  children  so  sent  shall  have  the 
same  rights  in  such  school  as  children  resident  in  said  town  or 
plantation.     Provided,  however,  that  in  case  the  interest  on  the  ^x*^es' 
reserve    fund    in    any    organized    township    together    with   the  J9yf'  c"  128' 
amount  arising  from  the  per  capita  tax  called  for  in  this  section,  *9J9'  c<  87* 
is  not  sufficient  to  provide  schooling  for  the  children  of  said 
township  for  at  least  twenty-six  weeks  in  a  year  the  remainder 
of  the  expense  shall  be  paid  from  the  fund  appropriated  by  sec- 
tion ninety-seven.     Provided,  further,  that  no  money  shall  be 
expended  under  this   section   for  the  benefit  of  any  township 

3 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE. 

until  the  inhabitants  of  said  township  shall  have  been  assessed 
by  the  duly  appointed  agent  therefor  the  sum  of  forty  cents  for 
each  of  said  inhabitants  resident  therein  on  the  first  day  of  April, 
and  said  agent  shall  have  made  return  of  such  assessment  to  the 
state  superintendent  of  schools.* 

of  gEC  ^  fiie  state  superintendent  of  public  schools  shall  cer- 
1899  bc  %?'  tify  to  the  governor  and  council  the  number  and  residences  of 
1901'  c  206  tne  children  enumerated  and  schooled,  as  provided  in  the  pre- 
*  *• '  '  ceding  section,  together  with  the  cost  of  schooling  said  children, 

and  the  governor  and  council  shall  direct  the  treasurer  of  state 
to  pay  the  state  superintendent  of  public  schools  so  much  of  the 
interest  on  the  reserved  land  fund  of  the  township  in  which  said 
children  reside  as,  added  to  the  amount  received  from  the  inhab- 
itants of  the  township  from  the  per  capita  tax,  shall  pay  the 
expense  of  said  school.  The  state  superintendent  of  public 
schools  shall  pay  to  the  treasurer  of  any  town  or  plantation  in 
which  he  may  school  any  of  said  children,  such  amount  for  each 
scholar  as  shall  be  his  proportional  part  of  the  cost  of  the  school 
to  which  he  is  sent. 

Agents,  ap-         ?KC.  96.     The   state   superintendent   of   public   schools   nr.y 
£ndn duties  of.  appoint  agents  for  the  several  townships  in  which  schools  shall 
be  established  under  section  ninety-four,  who  shall,  under  the 
'  direction   of    the    state   superintendent,    enumerate   the   pupils, 
assess  and  collect  the  per  capita  tax,  employ  the  teacher  and 
attend  to  all  necessary  details  in  connection  with  said  schools; 
for  which  purpose  the  state  superintendent  is  hereby  authorized 
to  expend  annually  from  the  appropriation  for  the  support  of 
schools   in  unorganized  townships   a   sum  not  exceeding  two 
thousand  two  hundred  dollars.     Said  agents  in  the  collection  of 
oT\Ugen°tsity     ^ie  Per  caP*ta  tax  aforesaid,  shall  have  the  same  powers  and 
1903,  c.  128,  may  use  the  same  methods  as  collectors  of  taxes  in  towns  are 
authorized  to  exercise  and  use  for  the  collecting  of  personal  and 
~eimattend^"    P°^  taxes  committed  to  them;  said  agents  may  act  as  truant 
1909  c  87     omcers  in  tne^r  several  townships,  and  may  in  their  discretion 
compel  the  regular  daily  attendance  at  school  of  every  child  in 
their  townships  between' the  seventh  and  seventeenth  anniver- 
saries of  his  birth  by  arresting  and  taking  to  school  any  child 
when  absent  therefrom,  and  any  parent  or  guardian  of  any  such 

*See  also  Chapter  62,   P.  L.   1909,   An  Act  to  extend  the  privileges  of 
secondary  instruction  to  youths  resident  in  Unorganized  Townships. 


SCHOOL,    I.AWS    OF    MAINE.  35 

child  or  children,  wilfully  refusing  to  allow  said  children  under 

his  control  to  attend  school,  or  opposing  said'  agent  in  arresting 

and  taking  said  children  to  school,  may  be  prosecuted  by  said 

agent  in  the  name  of  the  state  before  the  nearest  trial  justice, 

and  if  found  guilty  shall  forfeit  a  sum  not  exceeding  twenty 

dollars  for  the  use  of  the  schools  in  the  township  wherein  said 

children  are  resident,  or  shall  be  imprisoned  for  not  exceeding 

thirty  days.     The  state  superintendent  may  supply  school  books  ^oks^ow 

for  the  schools  established  under  said  sections  under  such  COn- supplied- 

ditions  as  to  the  purchase  and  care  thereof  as  he  may  deem 

proper. 

SEC.  97.     For  the  purpose  of  carrying  out  the  provisions  of  £p)P1ropria~ 
the  three  preceding  sections,  there  is  hereby  appropriated  the  1903'  c-  128» 
sum  of  eighteen  thousand  dollars  annually,  which  sum  shall  be  iQo5>  £•  ||- 
deducted  and  set  aside  therefor  by  the  treasurer  of  state  from  §  3. ' 

1911    c    20 

the  annual  school  funds  of  the  state. 

STATE    SUPERINTENDENT    OF    PUBIJC    SCHOOLS. 

SEC.  98.     The  governor  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Appointment 

and  term 

council  shall  appoint  a  state  superintendent  of  public  schools,  of  °fflce>11 

xx..    S.    C*    11, 

who  shall  continue  in  office  three  years,  or  during  the  pleasure  |8^2>c  237 
of  the  executive ;  vacancies  shall  be  filled  by  a  new  appointment 
for  a  like  term. 

SEC.  99.     An  office  shall  be  provided  for  him  at  the  seat  of  office  at  the 

capitol. 

government,  where  he  shall  preserve  all  school  reports  of  this  R-^  c.  11, 
state  and  of  other  states  which  he  may  receive,  the  returns  from  ' 
the  various  towns,  and  institutions  of  learning  and  such  books, 
apparatus,  maps,  charts,  works  on  education,  plans  for  school 
buildings,  models,  and  other  articles  of  interest  to  school  officers 
and  teachers  as  may  be  procured  without  expense  to  the  state. 

SEC.    100.     In  addition  to  the  duties   elsewhere   specifically  RU  seSc.  11, 
imposed  on  him  his  duties  are  as  follows : 

I.  To  exercise  a  general  supervison  of  all  the  public  schools,  generai 
and  to   advise   and   direct  the   town   committees   and   superin-  o^erThe1011 
tendents  in  the  discharge  of  their  duties,  by  circular  letters  and  sc 
personal  conference,  devoting  all  his  time  to  the  duties  of  his 

office. 

II.  To  obtain  information  as  to  the  school  systems  of  other 
states  and  countries,  and  the  condition  and  progress  of  public  ^sard 
school  education  throughout  the  world;  to  disseminate  this  in-  systems- 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE. 


Resolves, 

1897,  1899, 

1901. 


state  edu- 


summer 

training 

schools. 

Resolves  of 

1895,  1897, 

1899,  1901. 


publish 

abstract  of 

proceedings, 


laws  and 

circulars  of 

information, 

1889,  c,   SOT. 


ols, 


be 


Furnish  rec- 

todsch°o°oki8 
°89C7rSc  273 


formation,  with  such  practical  hints  upon  the  conduct  of  schools, 
improved  systems  of  instruction,  and  the  true  theory  of  educa- 

*  .  ..  « 

tion  as  observation  and  investigation  convince  him  to  be  im- 
portant, by  public  addresses,  circulars  and  articles  prepared  for 
the  press,  and  by  outlines,  suggestions  and  directions  concerning 
the  management,  discipline  and  methods  employed  in  teaching, 
prepared  for  and  distributed  among  the  teachers  of  the  schools 
and  school  officers  of  the  state  ;  and  to  do  all  in  his  power  to 
awaken  and  sustain  an  interest  in  education  among  the  people, 
and  to  stimulate  teachers  to  well-directed  efforts  in  their  work. 

III.  To  take  such  measures  as  he  deems  necessary  to  secure 
the  holding  of  a  state  educational  convention  once  each  year, 
with  a  view  of  bringing  together  the  teachers,  school  commit- 
tees, school  superintendents,  and  friends  of  education,  for  con- 
sultation with  reference  to  the  interest  of  public  schools  and  the 
most  approved  method  of  instruction. 

IV.  To  encourage  the  formation  of  county  teachers'  associa- 

* 

tions,  approve  rules  of  government  therefor,  and  to  supervise 

.      . 

the  conduct  of  conventions  held  by  such  associations.     He  shall 

.     .  .. 

also  conduct  summer  training  schools  for  teachers,  whenever 
provision  is  made  by  the  legislature  for  holding  such  schools.* 

V.  To  prepare  and  cause  to  be  printed  and  distributed  such 
portions  of  the  proceedings  of  state  institutes  or  teachers   con- 
ventions as  he  deems  important  in  the  furtherance  of  .education. 

VI.  Biennially,  as  soon  as  practicable  after  the  adjournment 
of  the  legislature,  to  compile  and  distribute,  in  pamphlet  form, 
to  the  municipal  and  school  officers  of  the  several  towns,  three 

t  . 

thousand  copies  of  the  amended  school  laws  of  the  state  ;  and  to 
prepare  and  issue  thus  biennially,  such  circulars  of  information 
and  advice  to  school  officers,  relating  to  new  school  enactments, 
as  he  shall  deem  necessary  for  the  intelligent  and  effectual 
enforcement  of  such  enactments. 

VII.  To  Prescribe  the  studies  to  be  taught  in  the  common 
schools,  reserving  to  town  committees  the  right  to  prescribe 
additional  studies. 

VIII.  To  furnish  to  the  school  officers  of  each  town,  proper 

blank  b°°ks  in  which  sha11  be  kePt  complete  and  itemized  rec- 
ords of  all  matters  relating  to  moneys  appropriated,  received 

*See  Chapter   188,  Res.   1901. 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE).  37 

and  expended  for  schools,  which  said  books  shall  remain  the 
property  of  the  state. 

IX.  To  assume  the  control  and  management  of  all  free  pub-  w%tro\  ot 
lie  schools  established  and  maintained  by  gifts  or  bequests,  when  sch.°°ls. 

J   c  »  maintained 

said  gifts  or  bequests  are  conditioned  upon  said  state  superin-  c<fnm«oned> 
tendent  assuming  such  control  and  management;  and  he  shall1901-  c-  la*5- 
carry  out  the  provisions  upon  which  such  gifts  or  bequests  are 
conditioned,  when  said  conditions  are  approved  by  the  governor 
and  council. 

X.  To  perform  all  duties  imposed  upon  him  by  any  charter  dutSfhn- 
or  charters  granted  by  the  legislature  to  educational  institutions  charters 

in  the  state.  1901-  c-'272- 

XI.  Annually,   to  report  to   the   governor  and  council   the  ^eapk0ertannual 
result  of  his  inquiries  and  investigations,  and  the  facts  obtained 

from  the  school  returns,  with  such  suggestions  and  recom- 
mendations as  in  his  judgment  will  best  promote  the  improve- 
ment of  public  schools. 

SEC.  10  1.  The  state  superintendent  shall  prepare  and  furnish 
to  the  town  officers  such  blanks  as  he  deems  proper  to  secure  the- 
fiscal  returns  required  in  section  twenty-eight.  He  shall  return 
to  the  treasurer  of  state  on  the  first  day  of  July  annually,  a  list  §  14> 
of  such  towns  as  have  made  such  fiscal  returns  ;  and  no  school 
moneys  shall  be  paid  by  the  treasurer  of  state  to  any  town,  so 
long  as  it  neglects  to  make  such  returns. 

SEC.   1  02.     He  shall  prepare  and  print  blank  forms  for  all  annual  school 
other  returns  required  by  law,  or  deemed  by  him  necessary,  and  f^s™'.  n, 
shall,  on  the  first  day  of  each  March,  forward  to  the  superin-  * 
tendents  of  schools  of  the  several  towns,  blanks  for  the  annual 
school  return,  and  registers  for  the  school  year  commencing  on 
the  first  day  of  April  following. 

SEC.  103.  He  shall,  on  the  first  day  of  each  June,  notify  the 
school  committee  of  any'  town  whose  returns  were  not  received 
at  his  office  in  May,  and  shall,  annually,  ascertain  on  the  first 


clay  of  July  the  number  of  children  between  five  and  twenty-one  children1 
years  of  age,  in  the  towns  from  which  returns  are  received,  and  J  \^' 
furnish  a  list  thereof  to  the  treasurer  of  state. 

SEC.  104.     He  shall  cause  to  be  held,  at  such  convenient  times 
and  places  as  he  may  from  time  to  time  designate,  public  exam-  S 
inations  of  candidates  for  the  position  of  teacher  in  the  public  § 
.schools  of  the  state.     Such  examinations  shall  test  the  profes- 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  MAINK. 


sional  as  well  as  the  scholastic  abilities  of  the  candidates,  and 

shall  be  conducted  'by  such  persons  and  in  such  manner  as  he 

ice  shall  ma^  ^  rom  ^me  to  ^me  designate.     Due  notice  of  the  time,  place 

be  given.        an(j  other  conditions  of  the  examinations  shall  be  given  in  such 

public  manner  as  he  may  determine. 

certificate  of      $EC.  IO5-     A  certificate  of  qualification  shall  be  given  to  all 

qualification    canciidates  who  pass  satisfactory  examinations  in  such  branches 

C895idctei52  as  are  required  by  law  to  be  taught,  and  who  in  other  respects 

fulfil  the  proper  requirements.     Such  certificate  shall  be  either 

probationary   or   permanent   and   shall   indicate   the   grade   of 

schools  which  the  person  named  is  qualified  to  teach. 

List  of  ap-         SEC.  1  06.     A  list  of  approved  candidates  shall  be  kept  in  the 

Sidatlfs  *£?'    office  of  the  state  superintendent,  and  copies  of  the  same  with 

i895?Pc!  152,  such  information  as  may  be  desired  shall  be  sent  to  school  com- 

mittees and  superintendents  upon  their  '  request. 

?oeibefiac-es  SEC.  107.  The  certificates  issued  under  the  provisions  of  sec- 
eof  !per-  tion  one  hundred  and  five  shall  be  accepted  by  school  commit- 
tees  and  superintendents  in  lieu  of  the  personal  examination 
1895,  c.  52.  ancj  certification  required  by  section  thirty-six. 

SEC.  108.     A  sum  not  exceeding  five  hundred  dollars  may  be 


annually  expended  for  the  necessary  and  contingent  expenses  of 
1895,  c.  152,  carryjng.  out  the  provisions  of  the  four  preceding  sections. 


NORMAL    SCHOOLS,    AND    MADAWASKA    TRAINING    SCHOOL. 

Four  normal      SEC.   ICQ.     The  northern  normal  school  at  Farmington,  the 

schools, 

where  eastern  normal  school  at  Castine,  the  western  normal  school  at 

R.  s.  c.  11,     Gorham  and  Aroostook  county  normal  school  at  Presque  Isle, 
1903,  c.  211.   shall  be  conducted  for  the  purposes  and  upon  the  principles 

herein  set  forth.* 

Their  I.     They  shall  be  thoroughly  devoted  to  the  training  of  teach- 

ers for  their  professional  labors. 

course  of  II.     The  course  of  study  shall  include  the  common  English 

branches  in  thorough  reviews,  and  such  of  the  higher  branches 
as  are  especially  adapted  to  prepare  teachers  to  conduct  the 
mental,  moral  and  physical  education  of  their  pupils. 

Bchoofman-  ^-  The  art  °f  school  management,  including  the  best  meth- 
ods of  government  and  instruction,  shall  have  a  prominent  place 
in  the  daily  exercises  of  said  schools. 

*See   also   Chapter   44,   P.    L.   1909,   An    Act   to   establish   an   additional 
normal  school  to  be  located  at  Machias  in  the  county  of  Washington. 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE.  39 

IV.  Said  schools,  while  teaching  the  fundamental  truths  of  Christianity 

~,t     ...  .  and    morality 

Christianity,  and  the  great  principles  of  morality,  recognized  bv  to  be  taught 

i  i      11    i.       r  r  11     1  "   without  sec- 

Jaw,  snail  be  tree  irom  all  denominational  teachings,  and  open  tarianism. 
to    persons    of    different    religious    connections    on    terms    of 
equality. 

V.  The  principals  of  the  normal  schools  and  of  all  other  Principals 

......  of   normal 

schools  in  which  normal  departments  are  supported,  wholly  or  in  schools  or 
part,  by  the  state,  shall  keep  a  register  containing  the  names  of  partments 
all  students  entering  such  schools  or  departments,  the  date  of  statistics 

,  i         •  i    "  •    '  of   students 

entering  and  leaving,  their  ages,  number  of  days   attendance,  the  therein  to 
length  of  the  term,  a  list  of  text-books  used,  and  all  other  infor-?ntendent.er" 
mation  required  in  the  blanks  furnished  by  the  state  superin- 
tendent.    Such   register  and   blanks   shall  be   returned  to   said 
superintendent  by  the  first  clay  of  each  December,  and  the  in- 
formation so  furnished  shall  appear  in  his  annual  report,  for  the 
use  of  the  legislature. 

SEC.  no.     The  course  of  study  shall  occupy  two  years  withjjjjjj£*  of 
suitable  vacations;  and  with  the  terms  of  admission  shall  be^'^g0'  llf 
arranged  by  said  superintendent,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  1895>  c-  75- 
governor  and  council.     The  trustees  may  arrange  for  a  course 
of  study,  occupying  three  or  four  years,  for  such  students  as 
elect  to  pursue  the  same. 

SEC.  in.  Any  student  who  completes  the  course  of  study  SPi2£ed.  to 
prescribed,  and  otherwise  complies  with  the  regulations  of  the  f'  109.°'  n' 
school,  shall  receive  a  diploma  certifying  the  same. 

SEC.  112.     Applicants  for  admission  shall  be  sixteen  years  of 
age  if  females,  and  seventeen  if  males,  and  shall  signify  their 
intention  to  become  teachers  and  come  under  obligation  to  teach  f'^Q0'  n> 
in  this  state  for  at  least  one  year,  and  if  they  receive  a  diploma,  1J 
two  years  after  they  have  graduated  ;  on  these  conditions  they 
shall  be  received  without  charge  for  tuition. 

SEC.  113.     Said  schools  are  under  the  direction  of  a  board  of  " 


nine  trustees,  seven  of  whom  shall  be  appointed  by  the  governor 
with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  council,  for  not  more  than  £tc's  c.  llt 
three  years  under  one  appointment;  and  the  governor  and  state  *J£*'C  n< 
superintendent  of  public  schools  are,  by  virtue  of  their  office,  1909'  c-  103' 
members  of  the  board.     Said  board  has  charge  of  the  general 
interests  of  said  schools;  shall  see  that  the  affairs  thereof  are 
conducted  as  required  by  law  and  by  such  by-laws  as  the  board 
adopt  ;  employ  teachers  and  lecturers  for  the  same  ;  and,  annu- 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE- 


— annual 
financial 
statement  to 
governor 
and    council. 


Madawaska 
Training 
School. 
1887,    c.    82. 


Appropria- 
tion  for 
normal  and 
training 
schools. 
R.  S.  c.  11, 
§    112. 

1897,  c.  308. 
1903,  c.  219. 
1909,  c.  106. 
1911,  c.  186. 


ally,  on  the  first  day  of  December  lay  before  the  governor  and 
council,  for  the  information  of  the  legislature,  a  financial  state- 
ment, furnishing  an  accurate  detailed  account  of  the  receipts 
and  expenditures  for  the  school  year  preceding. 

SEC.  1  14.  The  trustees  of  state  normal  schools  shall  maintain 
for  not  less  than  eight  months  annually,  the  Madawaska  Train- 
ing School,  at  Fort  Kent,  for  the  purpose  of  training  persons  to 
teach  in  the  common  schools  of  Madawaska  territory,  so  called, 
which  school  shall  be  under  their  control  and  direction,  in  the 
same  manner  and  to  the  same  extent  as  the  other  state  normal 
schools. 

SEC.  115.  For  the  support  of  the  five  normal  schools  and 
the  Madawaska  Training  School,  the  sum  of  seventy-seven 
thousand  five  hundred  dollars  is  appropriated  for  the  year  nine- 
teen hundred  and  eleven  and  the  sum  of  seventy-seven  thou- 
sand five  hundred  dollars  is  annually  appropriated  thereafter  to 
be  expended  under  the  direction  of  said  trustees,  which  sum  the 
treasurer  of  state  shall  deduct  for  said  purpose  from  any  school 
money  raised  for  the  support  of  common  schools.  The  gover- 
nor and  council  may  from  time  to  time,  as  they  think  proper, 
draw  warrants  therefor  on  said  treasurer  in  favor  of  said 
trustees. 


Blind    chil- 
dren may 
be  educated 
at  Perkins 
Institute. 
1899,    .  .    :.'. 


— expenses 
shall  be 
paid  by 
state. 


— proviso. 


INSTRUCTION    FOR  THE   BLIND. 

SEC.  116.  Upon  the  request  of  the  parents  or  guardians,  the 
governor  may,  with  the  approval  of  the  council,  send  such  blind 
children  as  he  may  deem  fit  subjects  for  education,  for  a  term 
not  exceeding  ten  years,  and  thereafter  in  the  discretion  of  the 
governor  and  council,  in  the  case  of  any  pupil,  to  the  Perkins 
Institute  for  the  blind  at  South  Boston,  Massachusetts.  In  the 
exercise  of  the  discretionary  power  conferred  by  this  section,  no 
distinction  shall  be  made  on  account  of  the  wealth  or  poverty  of 
the  parents  or  guardians  of  such  children.  No  such  pupils  shall 
be  withdrawn  from  such  institution  except  with  the  consent  of 
the  proper  authorities  thereof  or  of  the  governor ;  and  the  sums 
necessary  for  the  support  and  instruction  of  such  pupils  in  such 
institution,  including  all  traveling  expenses  of  such  pupils 
attending  such  institution  shall  be  paid  by  the  state;  provided, 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE.  4! 

however,  that  nothing  herein  contained  shall  be  held  to  prevent 
the  voluntary  payment  of  the  whole  or  any  part  of  such  sums  by 
the  parents  or  guardians  of  such  pupils. 


PENAL  PROVISIONS  AFFECTING  SCHOOLS. 

SEC.  117.     Forfeitures  under  this  chapter,  not  otherwise  pro-  Forfeiture, 

•  ,          c  .  how   recov- 

vided  for,  may  be  recovered  by  indictment,  and  shall  be  paid  erea  and  ap- 
into  the  treasury  of  the  town  where  they  occurred,  for  the  sup-  R.  s.  cAi, 
port  of  schools,  therein,  in  addition  to  the  amount -required  by 
law  to  be  raised ;  but  costs  of  prosecution  shall  be  paid  into  the 
county  treasury ;  any  town  neglecting  for  one  year,  so  to  expend  —neglect  to 
such  money,  forfeits  an  equal  sum  to  any  person  suing  therefor  moSy. 
in  an  action  of  debt. 

SEC.   1 1 8.     Whoever,  whether  a  scholar  or  not,  enters  any 
schoolhouse  or   other  place  of   instruction,   during  or  out  of  disturbing^ 
school  hours,  while  the  teacher  or  any  pupil  is  present,  and  wil-  R.  s.  c.  11, 
fully  interrupts  or  disturbs  the  teacher  or  pupils  by  loud  speak- 
ing,  rude  or  indecent  behavior,   signs  or  gestures,  or  wilfully 
interrupts   a   school   by   prowling   about   the   building,   making 
noises,  throwing  missiles  at  the  schoolhouse,  or  in  any  way  dis- 
turbing the  school,   forfeits  not  less  than  two,  or  more  than 
twenty  dollars,  to  be  recovered  as  aforesaid,  or  on  complaint. 

SEC.  no.     If  a  minor  injures  or  aids  in  injuring  any  school- Parents  or 

guardians 

house,  outbuildings,  utensils  or  appurtenances  belonging  thereto ;  liable, 
defaces  the  walls,  benches,  seats  or  other  parts  of  said  buildings  §  '115. ' 
by  marks,  cuts  or  otherwise,  or  injures  or  destroys  any  school 

.-,         — double 

property  belonging  to  a  town,   such  town  by  a  truant  omcer  damages, 
thereof,  may  recover  of  his  parent  or  guardian,  in  an  action  of 
debt,  double  the  damage  occasioned  thereby. 

SEC.  120.     Whoever  defaces  the  walls,  benches,  seats,  black- penalty  for 

,      M  ,.  defacing 

boards    or  .other    parts    of    any    schoolhouse    or    outbuildings  school 

.  ,       houses. 

belonging  thereto,  by  obscene  pictures,  language,  marks  or  de-R.^c.  11, 
scriptions,  shall  be  fined  not  exceeding  ten  dollars,  on  complaint 
made  within  one  year. 

SEC.  121.     If  an  innholder,  confectioner,  or  keeper  of  a  shop,  Innholders> 
boarding  house,  or  livery  stable,  gives  credit  for  food,  drink  or  leepew 
horse  or  carriage  hire,  to  any  pupil  of  a  college  or  literary  insti-  Mt  £  &% 
tution  in  violation  of  its  rules  he  forfeits  a  sum  equal  to  theJJJjentoJ 
amount  so  credited,  whether  it  has  been  paid  or  not,  to  be  recov-  f£Smc-  n» 


42  SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE. 

ered  in  an  action  of  debt  by  the  treasurer  of  such  institution ; 
half  to  its  use,  and  half  to  the  town  where  it  is  located ;  and  no 
person  shall  be  licensed  by  the  municipal  officers  for  any  of  said 
employments,  if  it  appears  that  within  the  preceding  year  he  had 
given  credit  contrary  to  the  provisions  hereof. 


STATE  SCHOOL  FUNDS. 

permanent  SEC.  122.  The  treasurer  of  state  shall  keep  a  separate 
Rhs01c.fTi!'  account  of  all  moneys  received  from  sales  of  lands  appropriated 
i9037'c.  228.  for  the  support  of  schools  or  from  notes  taken  therefor,  and  of 
any  other  moneys  appropriated  for  the  same  purpose  ;  and  such 
sum  shall  constitute  a  permanent  school  fund,  which  may  be  put 
at  interest  as  the  legislature  directs.  A  sum  equal  to  six  per 
cent  of  the  amount  of  such  fund,  and  one-half  the  sum  received 
by  the  state  from  the  tax  on  the  franchises  of  savings  banks, 
and  one-half  the  sum  assessed  upon  the  deposits  of  trust  and 
banking  companies,  shall  be  annually  appropriated  to  the  sup- 
port of  common  schools,  and  distributed  among  the  several 
towns  according  to  the  number  of  children  therein  between  five 
and  twenty-one  years  of  age. 

Treasurer  to       ^C'  I2^'     ^e  treasurer  shall,  immediately  after  the  first  clay 
ot~  July'  apportion  to  the  towns  all  the  state  school  funds  for  the 


F'ii8C'  llf     -vear>  according   to  the  list  of.  children  furnished  by  the    state 

see  §§  13,37.  superintendent  of  public  schools,  as  provided  in  section  one  hun- 

—  basis          (lrecl  and  tnree-     The  number  of  scholars  belonging  to  a  town 

^eennorteturns  from  which  either  the  school  committee  or  the  municipal  author- 

received.         ities  have  failed  to  make  the  returns  required  by  law,  shall  be 

reckoned  by  taking  the  number  used  as  the  basis  of  the  last 

apportionment,  and  deducting  all  scholars  set  off  to  other  towns, 

or  incorporated  into  a  new  town  within  a  year,  and  one-tenth  of 

the  remainder,  and  the  residue  shall  be  the  basis  of  the  new 

apportionment.     Immediately  after  making  the  apportionment, 

the  treasurer  shall  notify  each  town  of  its  proportion;  which 

funS0not       sha11  not  be  Paid  to  an>7  town  "ntil  its  returns,  both  common 

Ifntn  rpea-id      sch°o1  ancl  fiscal-  are  made  to  the  state  superintendent  of  public 

turns  are       schools,  nor  so  long  as  any  state  tax  assessed  upon  such  totfn 

remains  unpaid. 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE.  43 

SEC.  124.     A  tax  of  one  and  one-half  mills  on  a  dollar  shall  J£ms  t«-11 
annually  be  assessed  upon  all  the  property  in  the  state  according  S^*9^  11;l 
to  the  valuation  thereof,  and  shall  be  known  as  the  mill  tax  for  §  2- 
the  support  of  common  schools.* 

SEC.   125.     This  tax    shall  be  assessed  and  collected    in  thjCgJJkf^ 
same  manner    as  other  state  taxes,  and  be  paid  into    the  state  $,0"|cted- 

Iv.     b.     C«     1-L> 

treasury  and  designated  as  the  school  mill  fund. 

SEC.  126.  '  This  fund  shall  be  distributed  by  the  treasurer  of  HOW  dis- 
tributed. 
state  on  the  first  day  of  January,  annually,  to  the  several  cities,  R.  s.  c.  11, 

towns  and  plantations  according  to  the  number  of  scholars 
therein,  as  the  same  shall  appear  from  the  official  return  made 
to  the  state  superintendent  of  public  schools  for  the  preceding 
year.f 

SEC.    127.     All  of  the    school  mill  fund  not    distributed  ormexpendei 

balance   to 

expended  during  the  financial  year,  shall  at  its  close  be  added  to  be  added  to 

J  school  fun<L 

the  permanent  school  fund.  ^'f^c'  u' 

*See  also  Chapter  177,  P.  L.  1909,  An  Act  relating;  to  the  Common 
School  Fund  and  the  means  of  providing-  for  and  distributing  the  same. 

tSee  also  Chapter  198,  P.  L.  1909,  An  Act  for  the  equalization  of 
school  privileges. 


44 


SCHOOL    LAWS    01?    MAINE- 


Money    to 
constitute 


?'iS8.  °' 


FUNDS  FROM  SALE  OF  TIMBER  LANDS  TO  BE 
APPLIED  TO  SUPPORT  OF  SCHOOLS. 

(Chap.  7,  Sec.  17,  R.  S.  1903.) 

The  money  arising  from  the  sale  of  timber  and  grass,  or  from 
trespasses  on  reserved  lands,  paid  into  the  treasury  of  the 
county  in  which  the  township  is  situated,  or  into  the  state  treas- 
ury, constitutes  funds  for  school  purposes,  of  which  the  income 
only  shall  be  expended  and  applied  as  is  by  law  provided. 


Elementary 


100, 


INSTRUCTION  IN  FORESTRY  IN  PUBLIC  SCHOOLS. 

(Chap.  7,  Sec.  65,  R.  S.  1903-) 

The  forest  commissioner  shall  take  such  measures  as  the  state 
superintendent  of  public  schools  and  the  president  of  the  Uni- 
versity  of  Maine  may  approve,  for  awakening  an  interest  in 
of  forestry  in  the  public  schools,  academies  and  colleges 


of  the  state  and  of  imparting  some  degree  of  elementary  instruc- 
tion upon  this  subject  therein. 


School  for 
deaf   and 
dumb,    es- 
tablished. 


Location. 


Trustees, 
appointment 
and  tenure. 


MAINE   SCHOOL  FOR  THE  DEAF. 
(Chapter  446,  Private  and  Special  Laws,  1897.) 

SEC.  i.  The  Maine  School  for  the  Deaf  is  hereby  established 
— to  be  devoted  to  the  education  and  instruction  of  deaf  and 
dumb  children. 

S^c.  2.  Said  school  shall  be  located  at  Portland,  in  the 
county  of  Cumberland,  and  the  governor  and  council  are  hereby 
authorized,  on  behalf  of  the  state,  to  accept  a  conveyance  from 
the  city  of  Portland  of  the  school  lot,  building  and  fixtures  now 
used  as  a  school  for  the  deaf  in  said  Portland,  upon  the  condi- 
tion that  the  state  shall  hereafter  assume  the  entire  charge, 
responsibility  and  expense  of  maintaining  said  school. 

SEC.  3.  The  government  of  said  school  is  hereby  vested  in  a 
board  of  five  trustees,  to  be  appointed  by  the  governor  with  the 
advice  and  consent  of  the  council,  to  hold  office  for  a  term  of 
five  years,  except,  however,  that  the  trustees  first  appointed  shall 
hold  office,  one  for  one  year,  one  for  two  years,  one  for  three 
years,  one  for  four  years,  and  one  for  five  years. 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE.  45 


SEC.  4.  The  trustee  shall  have  charge  of  the  general  inter- 
ests  of  the  school  and  see  that  its  affairs  are  conducted  in 
accordance  with  law  and  such  by-laws  as  they  may  adopt;  they 
may  adopt  by-laws  which  shall  be  valid  when  sanctioned  by  the 
governor  and  council  ;  they  may  employ  a  principal  and  such 
teachers  and  other  employees  as  they  may  deem  advisable  and 
fix  the  compensation  of  the  same,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the 
governor  and  council;  they  may  from,  time  to  time  prescribe 
the  system  of  education  and  course  of  study  to  be  pursued  in"6  o£ 
the  school  and  shall  be  allowed  for  their  services  their  actual 
expenses  and  two  dollars  a  day  when  actually  employed. 

SEC.  5.  \\ith  the  consent  of  its  parent  or  guardian,  the 
trustees  may  admit  to  said  school,  for  a  term  not  exceeding  of  PuPils- 
twelve  years,  any  deaf  or  dumb  child  residing  in  this  state  and 
not  less  than  five  years  of  age,  who  shall  not  be  withdrawn  or 
discharged  from  said  school,  except  with  the  consent  of  the 
trustees  or  the  governor  and  council,  and  the  sums  necessary  for 
the  support  and  instruction  of  such  children  while  attending  said 
school,  shall  be  paid  by  the  state. 

SEC.  6.     Deaf  and  dumb  children  residing  in  other  states  may,  §jS?r«Sther 
at  the  discretion  of  the  trustees,  be  admitted  to  said  school  upon 
the  payment  by  their  parents  or  guardian  of  a  reasonable  com- 
pensation to  be  fixed  by  the  trustees. 


SUMMER  TRAINING  SCHOOLS  AND  THE  DISTRI- 
BUTION OF  EDUCATIONAL  DOCUMENTS. 

(Chap.  188,  Resolves   1901.) 

Resolved,  That  the  sum  of  two  thousand  five  hundred  dollars 
be  appropriated  annually,  from  the  state  school  fund,  to  defray 
the  expenses  of  holding  at  least  four  summer  training  schools 
for  teachers  and  for  the  purpose  of  preparing  and  distributing 
among  the  teachers  of  the  schools  and  school  officers  of  this 
state,  outlines,  suggestions  and  directions  concerning  the  man- 
agement, discipline  and  methods  employed  in  teaching,  for  the 
purpose  of  promoting  improved  systems  of  instruction;  said 
schools  to  be  conducted  by  and  said  documents  to  be  prepared 
and  distributed  under  the  direction  of  the  state  superintendent 
of  public  schools.  The  governor  and  council  are  hereby  author- 


SCHOOL   LAWS    OF    MAINE* 

ized  to  draw  their  warrant  from  time  to  time  for  the  expendi- 
ture of  said  sum,  upon  the  presentation  of  bills  properly 
avouched  by  said  superintendent. 


School  for 
idiotic  and 
feeble- 
minded,  to 
establish. 


Appointment 
of  trustees. 


Tenure. 


Management 
of   school. 


Destitute 
subjects   may 
be  admitted 
as  state 
charges. 


— subjects 
from    other 
states  may 
be  received. 


AX  ACT  TO  PROVIDE  FOR  THE  CARE  AND 

EDUCATION  OF  THE  FEEBLE  MINDED. 
(Chap.  44,  P.  L.,  1907,  as  amended  by  Chap.  167,  P.  L.  1909-) 

SEC.  i.  The  state  shall  establish  and  maintain  a  school  for 
the  care  and  education  of  the  idiotic  and  feeble  minded  six  years 
of  age  and  upward,  which  shall  be  known  as  the  Maine  School 
for  Feeble  Minded.  All  such  feeble  minded  persons  supported 
by  towns  in  the  state,  who,  in  the  judgment  of  the  municipal 
officers  of  towns  or  state  board  of  charities  are  capable  of  being 
benefited  by  school  instruction,  shall  be  committed  to  this  insti- 
tution. 

SEC.  2.  The  governor  shall,  with  the  advice  of  the  council, 
appoint  five  persons,  all  of  whom  shall  be  inhabitants  of  this 
state  and  one  of  that  number  shall  be  a  female,  to  be  trustees  of 
such  school. 

The  trustees  shall  be  -appointed  as  follows :  The  first  three 
to  serve  for  two  years,  the  other  two  for  four  years,  and  there- 
after said  trustees  shall  be  apopinted  to  serve  for  four  years. 

The  said  trustees  shall  have  the  general  management  and 
supervision  of  said  school  and  one  or  more  of  said  trustees  shall 
visit  said  school  as  often  as  once  each  month,  and  said  board  of 
trustees  shall  annually  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  October  of 
each  year  furnish  a  report  to  the  governor  and  council  contain- 
ing a  history  of  the  school,  for  the  year  and  a  complete  state- 
ment of  all  accounts,  with  all  the  funds,  general  and  special, 
appropriated  or  belonging  to  said  school  with  a  detailed  state- 
ment of  disbursements. 

SEC.  3.  All  indigent  and  destitute  persons  in  this  state,  who 
are  proper  subjects  for  said  schools,  and  have  no  parents,  kins- 
men or  guardian  able  to  provide  for  them,  may  be  admitted  as 
state  charges  and  all  other  persons  in  this  state,  who  are  proper 
subjects  for  said  school  when  parents,  kinsmen  or  guardian 
bound  by  the  law  to  support  such  persons  are  able  to  pay,  shall 
pay  such  sum  for  care,  education  and  maintenance  of  such  per- 
sons as  the  trustees  shall  determine,  and  such  persons  from 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINS.  47 

other  states  having  no  such  institution  and  similar  schools  may 
t>e  received  into  such  school  when  there  is  room  for  them  with- 
out excluding  state  charges,  at  a  cost  to  each  person  or  those 
who  are  legally  responsible  for  their  maintenance  at  a  cost  of 
not  less  than  three  dollars  and  twenty-five  cents  per  week. 

Governor, 

SKC.  4.     The  governor  shall  be,  ex-officio,  a  member  of  theex-°ffici° 

.  ...     trustee. 

board  of  trustees  of  said  school  and  shall  annually  visit  said 
•school. 

Judge  of 

bEC.  5.     Whenever  it  is  made  to  appear,  upon  application  to  probate  may 

commit  to 

the  judge  of  probate  for  any.  county  and  after  due  notice  and  school, 
a  proper  hearing,  that  any  person   resident  in  said  county  or 
any  inmate  of  the  Maine  Industrial  School  for  girls,  the  State 
School  for  boys,  the  Bath  Military  and  Naval  Orphan  Asylum 
or  any  person  supported  by  any  town,  is  a  fit  subject  for  the 
Maine  School  for  Feeble  Minded,  such  judge  may  commit  such 
person  to  said  school  by  an  order  of  commitment  directed  to 
the  trustees  of  said  school  for  feeble  minded  accompanied  by 
a   certificate   of   two   physicians   who   are   graduates   of   some 
legally    organized    medical    college    and    have    practiced    three 
years  in  this  state,  that  such  a  person  is  a  proper  subject  for  ^iSJJPS?~ . 
said  institution.     Whenever,  upon  such  application,  there  is  oc-  prolttef  for 
casion  for    the  judge  of  probate  to  attend  a  hearing   on  days  services< 
other  than  days  fixed  as  the  regular  day  for  holding  the  probate 
court,  said  judge  of  probate  shall  be  allowed  five  dollars  per  day 
for  his  services  and  expenses,  which  shall  be  paid  by  the  county 
treasurer  upon  the  certificate  of  the  county  commissioners. 

Order    of 

SEC.  6.     Any  order  of  committal  under  this  act  shall  be  sub-  committal 

subject  to 

ject  to  appeal  in  the  same  manner  by  the  same  persons  and  to  appeal, 
the  same  extent  that  decrees  of  the  judge  of  probate  appointing 
guardians  over  persons  alleged  to  be  insane  or  incompetent  or 
spendthrift,  and  no  committal  under  this  act  shall  bar  habeas 
corpus  proceedings,  but  the  court  upon  habeas  corpus  proceed- 
ings may  confirm  the  order  of  commitment  whenever  justice  __discharge 
requires.     Any   inmate   of   the   Maine   School   for   the   Feeble  of  inmate. 
Minded  may  be  discharged  by  any  three  of  the  trustees  or  by 
a  justice  of  the  supreme  or  superior  court  of  the  state  whenever 
a  further  detention  in  such  school  in  their  opinion  is  unneces- 
sary, but  any  person  so  discharged  who  was  under  sentence  of 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE. 


Order  of 
admittance. 


Governor 
and  council 
shall  select 
and  pur- 
chase suit- 
able  site. 


Trustees 
to  make 
rules   and 
regulations. 


•  ;<»\  rrnor 
shall  draw 
warrant. 


— accounts 
of  trustees 
shall  be 
audited. 


Approprh 
tlon. 


Compensa- 
tion of 
trustees. 


imprisonment  at  the  time  of  his  commitment,  the  period  of 
which  shall  not  have  expired,  shall  be  committed  or  remanded 
to  prison  for  such  unexpired  time. 

SEC.  7.  Feeble  minded  persons  shall  be  admitted  to  the  insti- 
tution in  the  following  order:  First,  feeble  minded  persons 
who  are  now  in  public  institutions  supported  entirely  at  public 
expense;  second,  feeble  minded  persons  in  public  institutions 
not  supported  as  aforesaid;  third,  feeble  minded  persons  who 
are  not  in  any  institution  of  the  state,  who  have  no  parents,  kins- 
men or  guardian  able  to  provide  for  them,  or  who  are  commit- 
ted by  a  judge  of  probate;  fourth,  those  residing  within  the 
state  whose  parents,  kinsmen  or  guardian  bound  by  law  to  sup- 
port such  persons  are  able  to  pay ;  fifth,  persons  of  other  states 
whose  parents,  kinsmen  or  guardian  are  willing  to  pay. 

SEC.  8.  The  governor  and  council  shall  select  and  purchase 
a  suitable  site  for  said  school  and  home  and  the  board  of  trus- 
tees, as  soon  as  appointed  and  organized,  shall  proceed  as  soon 
as  practicable  to  erect  thereon  and  properly  furnish  and  equip 
suitable  buildings  and  structures  to  accomplish  the  objects  set 
forth  in  this  act. 

SEC.  9.  Said  trustees  shall  have  power  to  make  all  necessary 
rules  and  regulations  as  to  admission  to  said  institution  and  for 
the  government  and  control  of  said  institution  and  its  inmates, 
and  to  do  everything  necessary  to  properly  care  for  and  educate 
the  feeble  minded  of  the  state. 

For  all  bills  contracted  by  the  governor  and  council  as  afore- 
said in  purchasing  a  site  the  governor  shall  draw  his  warrant 
upon  any  money  in  the  terasury  to  pay  the  same  not  otherwise 
appropriated,  and  all  bills  contracted  by  the  trustees  in  erecting, 
repairing  and  equipping  suitable  buildings  and  operating  the 
institution  shall  each  year  be  audited  by  the  governor  and  coun- 
cil, and  the  governor  shall  draw  his  warrant  upon  any  money 
in  the  treasury  to  pay*  the  same  not  otherwise  appropriated. 

SEC.  10.  A  sum  of  money  not  exceeding  sixty  thousand  dol- 
lars shall  be  appropriated  under  this  act  to  be  used  and  expended 
for  the  purposes  therein  named  within  the  next  two  years. 

SEC.  n.  The  trustees  shall  receive  five  dollars  per  day  when 
employed  and  actual  expenses. 

SEC.  12.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  with  this  act, 
are  hereby  repealed. 


SCHOOIv    LAWS    OF    MAINE).  49 

AX  ACT  REQUIRING  STEAM  PLANTS  IN  SCHOOL 
BUILDINGS',   CHURCHES,   AND   OTHER   PUBLIC 

BUILDINGS,  TO  BE  IN  CHARGE  OF  COMPETENT 
PERSONS. 

(Chap.  82,  P.  L.  1907.) 


SEC.  i.     \Yhenever  any  school  building,  church,  or  other 
lie  building  is  heated  by  a  steam  plant,  located  in,  under  or  near 
such  building,  such  steam  plant  shall  be  in  charge  of  a  person 
qualified  as  provided  by  this  act. 

SEC.  2.     The  municipal  officers  of  any  town  or  city  in  which  J^nicipai  b7 
any  of  the  buildings  enumerated  in  the  preceding  section,  heated  °mcers- 
by  steam,  are  located,  shall  require  the  person  or  persons  con- 
templating taking  charge  of  the  steam  plant  for  such  purpose, 
tc  be  first  examined  by  them,  and  they  shall  require  him  to  pro- 
duce before  them  proof  of  his  competency  to  have  charge  of 
such  steam  plants;  and  unless  the  person  so  applying  has  been 
licensed  as  an  engineer,  or  has  had  previous  experience  as  a 
machinist,   or  as   an   engineer   of   a   steam  plant,   he   shall  be 
required  to  satisfy  said  municipal  officers  that  he  possesses  the 
requisite  qualifications  and  experience  to  assume  charge  of  the 
particular  plant  which  he  desires  permission  to  operate;  and  if 
said   municipal   officers,    after    such   examination,   are   satisfied  —  officers 
that  the  applicant  possesses  the  requisite  qualifications  for  such  certificate. 
work,  and  is  of  temperate  habits,  they,  or  the  majority  thereof, 
shall  issue  under  their  hands  a  certificate  in  the  following;  form  : 


•& 


STATE    OF   MAINE. 

'City  (or)  Town  of : 

This  is  to  certify  that having  made  application 

to  the  municipal  officers  of  the  city  (or)  town  of ,  certificate. 

for  permission  to  take  charge  of,  and  operate  a  steam  plant 
located  in  said  city  (or)  town,  (here  describe  the  nature  of 
the  steam  plant  of  which  the  applicant  is  authorized  to  have 
charge,  and  its  location)  ;  and  having  produced  evidence  of  his 
competency  to  act  in  said  capacity,  we  have  issued  to  him  this 

certificate  as  provided  by  chapter of  the  public  laws, 

approved  on  the day  of  March,  nineteen  hundred  and 

seven.' 


^o  SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE- 

certificate  $ajci  certificate  when  issued  shall  be  filed  in  the  office  of  the 

city  or  town  clerk,  and  such  clerk  shall  issue  and  deliver  to 
said  applicant  a  duly  attested  copy  of  such  certificate,  and  the 
copy  so  issued  shall  be  posted  by  the  holder  thereof,  in  a  con- 
spicuous place  in  or  near  the  room  in  which  the  boiler  to  be 
operated  is  located. 

unlawful  SKC.  3.     It  shall  be  unlawful  for  the  municipal  officers  of  any 

certificate       city  or  town  to  issue  the  certificate  provided  for  by  this  act 
^ithoStiCproof  without  receiving  proof  that  the  person  to  whom  such  certifi- 
cationallfl        cate  is  issued  has  had  experience  in  such  work,  and  is  in  all 
respects  qualified  to  discharge  the  duties  referred  to  in  the  cer- 
tificate granted,  and  is  also  of  temperate  habits. 
Duty  of  SFC.  4.     Whenever  the  municipal  officers  of   anv   town  or 

municipal  .  \  .         .  .  .  •  ,    i  t    ,\ 

officers  when  citv  receive  notice  in  writing,   signed  by  ten  or  more  of  the 

notice  is  ,  . 

received  of     residents  thereof,  stating  that  the  person  in  charge  of  a  steam 

incompetency.     ,  .,  .. 

plant  located  in,  under,  or  near,  any  school  building,  church,  or 
other  public  building  situated  in  said  city  or  town,  and  furnish- 
ing or  supplying  heat  for  such  building,  is  incompetent  for  the 
discharge  of  such  duties,  or  by  reason  of  negligence,  intemper- 
of  such  steam  plant,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  municipal  offi- 
ance,  or  any  other  cause,  ought  not  longer  to  remain  in  charge 
cers  to  immediately  suspend  temporarily  the  authority  of  such 
person  to  act  in  said  capacity ;  and  until  the  investigation  herein 
provided,  can  be  made,  shall  cause  a  person  qualified  as  pro- 
vided by  this  act  to  be  placed  in  charge  of  said  steam  plant; 
and  said  municipal  officers  shall  as  soon  thereafter  as  practi- 
cable, cause  an  investigation  to  such  complaint  to  be  made,  and 
shall  thereupon  inquire  into  the  habits  and  qualifications  of  the 
person  so  complained  of,  and  if  such  person  is.  for  any  reason, 
found  to  be  incompetent  or  unsuitable  to  longer  remain  in 
-charge  of  said  steam  plant,  said  municipal  officers  shall  imme- 
diately cause  the  certificate  granted  under  the  provisions  of  this 
act,  to  be  revoked,  and  notice  of  such  revocation  shall  be  filed 
with  the  clerk  of  such  city  or  town,  and  thereupon  said  munici- 
pal officers  shall,  if  such  plant  is  under  their  control,  place  a 
person  qualified  as  herein  provided,  in  charge  thereof;  and  if 
such  steam  plant  is  not  in  charge  of  such  municipal  officers, 
they  shall  give  the  person  or  corporation  having  the  control  of 
such  steam  plant,  notice  of  their  findings,  and  if  such  person  or 
corporation  having  control  of  such  steam  plant,  shall,  after  the 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  MAINE;.  51 

receipt  of  such  findings,  neglect  or  refuse  to  cause  said  steam 
plant  to  be  placed  in  charge  of  some  person  qualified  under  the 
provisions  of  this  act,  such  person  or  corporation  shall  be  sub- 
ject to  the  penalties  herein  provided. 

SEC.  5.     Every  person  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  penalty  for 
act  shall  be  subject  to  indictment,  and  upon  conviction  thereof  thi^act?  °f 
shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars,  or  im- 
prisonment for  a  term  not  exceeding  ninety  days,  or  both,  as 
the   court   in   which   such  conviction   is  obtained,   shall   deter- 
mine. 

SKC.  6.     This  act  shall  take  effect  the  first  day  of  September  a^haff8 
in  the  year  nineteen  hundred  seven.  take  effect 

AN  ACT  TO  ENCOURAGE  THE  COMPILING  AND 
TEACHING  OF  LOCAL  HISTORY  AND  LOCAL 
GEOGRAPHY  IN  THE  PUBLIC  SCHOOLS. 

(Chap.  88,  P.  L.   1907,  as  amended  by  Chap.  138,  P.  L.  1909, 

and  Chap.  159,  P.  L.  1911.) 
SKC.   i.     The  governor,  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Governor 

sn.3.11    cip- 

council,  shall  appoint  a  state  historian,  who  shall  be  a  member  p?int  state 

historian. 

of  the  Maine  Historical  Society  and  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to 
compile  historical  data  of  the  state  of  Maine  and  encourage  the 
teaching  of  the  same  in  the  public  schools.  It  shall  also  be  his~ 
duty  to  encourage  the  compiling  and  publishing  of  town  his- 
tories, combined  with  local  geography.  It  shall  further  be  his 
duty  to  examine,  and  when  he  decides  that  the  material  is  suit- 
able, approve  histories  of  towns  compiled  as  provided  in  section 
two  of  this  act. 

SEC.  2.     Whenever  any  town  shall  present  to  the  state  his- May  approve 
torian  material  which  he  considers  suitable  for  publication  as  history? 
a  history  of  the  town  presenting  the  same,  then  he  may  approve 
of  the  publication  of  a  history  with  the  local  geography  which 
will  be  suitable  for  the  use  in  the  grammar  and  high  school 
grades  of  the  public  schools. 

SEC.  3.     Whenever  material  for  a  town  history  with  local  Jgjjns  pub- 
geography  has  been  approved  by  the  state  historian,  and  tne  receivehaH 
same  has  been  published  by  the  town,  and  provision  has  beenstate  ald< 
made  for  its  regular  use  in  the  public  schools  of  said  town ;  then 
the  state  treasurer  shall  pay  the  town  so  publishing  a  sum  not 


LAWS    OF    MAINE- 


Board  to 

compile 

history. 


— towns 
may  unite. 


— history  to 
he  placed  in 
state  library. 


Expenses  of 
historian. 


Publication 
of  historical 
data. 


—availa- 
bility. 
1911,  c.  159, 

Historical 
sites. 


exceeding  one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars,  provided  that  the  state 
shall  not  pay  to  any  town,  to  exceed  one-half  the  amount  paid 
by  said  town  for  printing  and  binding  said  histories. 

SEC.  4.  The  superintending  school  committee,  and  the  super- 
intendent of  schools,  shall  elect  some  citizen  of  the  town  to  serve 
with  them ;  and  these  persons  shall  constitute  a  board  to  compile 
a  history  and  the  local  geography  of  the  town  in  which  they 
reside.  Two  or  more  towns  may  unite  in  compiling  and  pub- 
lishing a  history  and  the  local  geography  of  the  towns  forming 
the  union.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  superintendent  of  schools 
to  forward  two  copies  of  said  history  to  the  Maine  state  library 
and  notify  the  superintendent  of  public  schools  of  the  title  of 
said  history. 

SEC.  5.  All  the  actual  cash  expenses  of  the  said  state  his- 
torian incurred  while  in  the  discharge  of  his  official  duties  shall 
be  paid  on  the  approval  and  order  of  the  governor  and  council, 
and  shall  not  exceed  five  hundred  dollars  per  annum. 

SEC.  6.  The  state  historian  is  authorized  to  expend,  under 
the  direction  of  the  governor  and  council,  any  portion  of  the 
amount  appropriated  by  this  act,  in  the  publication  of  historical 
matter  and  data  relating  to  the  history  of  Maine,  or  in  making 
available  by  card  catalog  and  otherwise  historical  materials  in 
the  possession  of  the  state. 

SEC.  7.  The  marking  of  historical  sites,  as  authorized  by  the 
legislature,  shall  be  under  the  direction  of  the  state  historian. 


AN    ACT    RELATING    TO    THE    STATE    SUPERIN- 

TENDENT OF  PUBLIC  SCHOOLS. 

(Chapter  171,  P.  L.  1907,  as  amended  by  Chapter  125,  P.  L. 

1909.) 

salary  of  SEC.  i.     The  salary  of  the  state  superintendent  of  schools  is 

state  super-  11-1 

1*  °f  ereky  established  at  twenty-five  hundred  dollars  per  annum. 
He  shall  receive  in  addition  his  actual  cash  expenses  incurred 
in  the  performance  of  his  official  duties  which  sum  shall  be 
out  °^  ^ie  sPec^nc  appropriation  for  that  purpose.  He 
emPloy  a  clerk>  wno  may  serve  as  his  deputy,  at  a  salary 
deputy.  not  to  exceed  fifteen  hundred  dollars  annually,  with  necessary 
expenses  when  on  official  business  within  the  state,  and  other 
clerical  assistance  at  a  cost  not  to  exceed  one  thousand  dollars 


schoo 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE.  53 

annually.     He  shall  perform  his  official  duties  at  the  office  pro-  — duties- 
vided  for  him  at  the  seat  of  government  and  not  elsewhere,  not 
meaning  however,  to  prohibit  him  from  making  such  necessary 
journeys  and  performing  such  duties  as  are  necessary  or  inci- 
dental to  the  immediate  object  of  such  journey. 

SEC.  2.     All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  with  this  act 
are  hereby  repealed. 


ACT  TO  PROVIDE  SCHOOLS  WITH  FLAGS. 
(Chap.  182,  P.  L.  1907.) 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  superintendents  of  schools  to  report 
the  municipal  officers  of  cities,  towns  and  plantations  all  schools sc 
within  their  jurisdiction  without  flags,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty 
of  said  municipal  officers  to  furnish  flags  to  all  such  schools,  to 
be  paid  for  by  said  municipalities.  These  flags  are  to  be  used 
in  all  schools  for  the  education  of  the  youth  of  our  state,  to 
teach  them  the  cost,  the  object  and  principles  of  our  govern- 
ment, the  great  sacrifices  of  our  forefathers,  the  important  part 
taken  by  the  Union  army  in  eighteen  hundred  sixty-one  to 
eighteen  hundred  sixty-five,  and  to  teach  them  to  love,  honor 
and  respect  the  flag  of  our  country  that  cost  so  much  and  is  so 
dear  to  every  true  American  citizen. 

SECTION  ONE  OF  AN  ACT  DESIGNATING  THE 
OFFICIAL  FLAG  OF  THE  STATE  OF  MAINE  AND 
DESCRIBING  THE  SAME. 

(Chapter   19,  P.  L.   1909.) 

SEC.  i.     The  flag  to  be  known  as  the  official  flag  of  the  state  state  flag, 
of  Maine  shall  be  of  blue,  same  color  as  the  blue  field  in  the  Offcr 
flag  of  the  United  States,  and  of  the  following  dimensions  and 
designs :  to  wit,  the  length,  or  height,  of  the  staff,  to  be  nine 
feet,  including  brass  spear-head  and  ferule;  the  fly  of  said  flag 
to  be  five  feet  six  inches,  and  to  be  four  feet  four  inches  on 
the  staff;  in  the  center  of  the  flag  there  shall  be  embroidered  in 
silk  the  same  on  both  sides  of  the  flag  the  coat  of  arms  of  the 
state  of  Maine,  in  proportionate  size;  the  edges  to  be  trimmed 
with  knotted   fringe  of  yellow   silk,   two   and   one-half   inches 


54 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE. 


wide,  a  cord,  with  tassels,  to  be  attached  to  the  staff  at  the  spear- 
head, to  be  eight  feet  six  inches  long  and  composed  of  white 
and  blue  silk  strands. 


Pupils  may 
be  excluded 
from  school 
until 
cleansed, 
cured  and 
disinfected. 


Duty  of 
parents. 


— penalty. 


AN  ACT  RELATING  TO  THE  WELFARE  OF  SCHOOL 
CHILDREN. 

(Chap.  3 1,.  P.  L.  1909-) 

SEC.  i.  When  a  teacher  becomes  aware  or  suspects  that  any 
of  the  pupils  attending  his  school  are  in  a  condition  which  ren- 
ders them  a  source  of  offense  or  danger  to  the  other  pupils  in 
school  on  account  of  filthiness,  or  because  they  are  the  bearers 
of  vermin  or  parasites,  or  have  an  infection  or  contagious  dis- 
ease of  the  skin,  mouth  or  eyes,  he  shall  notify  the  superin- 
tendent of  schools,  and  when  a  superintendent  of  schools  knows 
or  learns  that  any  of  the  pupils  attending  any  school  within  his 
jurisdiction,  are  affected  with  any  of  the  conditions,  infections, 
or  diseases  herein  mentioned,  he  shall  notify  the  parents  to 
cleanse  the  clothing  and  the  bodies  of  the  children  and  to  furnish 
them  with  the  required  home  or  medical  treatment,  for  the 
relief  of  their  trouble,  and  the  superintendent  of  schools  may, 
when  he  deems  it  necessary,  exclude  such  children  from  the 
schools  temporarily  or  until  they  may  be  cured,  cleansed  and 
disinfected. 

SEC.  2.  Parents  thus  notified  of  the  condition  of  their  chil- 
dren shall  forthwith  have  them  and  their  clothing  cleansed  and 
shall  promptly  do  what  is  necessary,  or  furnish  them  such  medi- 
cal treatment  as  may  be  required,  to  rid  the  children  of  vermin, 
parasites,  or  contagion ;  and  any  parent  who  fails  to  do  what  is 
required  so  that  the  children  may  return  to  school  with  as  little 
loss  of  time  as  is  possible,  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and 
shall  be  liable  to  a  fine  not  to  exceed  five  dollars  for  the  first 
offense,  and  not  to  exceed  ten  dollars  for  a  secohd  or  subsequent 
offense. 


SCHOOL    LAWS    O£    MAINE.  55 

AN  ACT  TO  ESTABLISH  AN  ADDITIONAL  NORMAL 
SCHOOL  TO  BE  LOCATED  AT  MACHIAS  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  WASHINGTON. 

(Chap.  44,  P.  L.   1909.) 

Sicr.    i.     Another  normal   school  to  be  known  as  Washing-  Normal 
ton  State  Normal  School  is  hereby  created  and  established  upon  tabHshed." 
snch  plans  as   the  board   of  trustees   for  normal   schools  may 
direct. 

SEC.  2.  Said  normal  school  shall  be  located  at  Machias  in  Location  of 
the  county  of  Washington,  provided  and  upon  condition  that 
the  inhabitants  of  said  town  of  Machias,  shall,  within  six 
months  after  the  date  of  the  approval  of  this  act,  to  donate  and 
cause  to  be  conveyed  to  the  state  for  the  purpose  and  use  of 
such  schools  a  lot  of  land  not  less  than  five  acres  in  extent  and 
whatever  buildings  stand  thereon  may  be  selected  and  approved 
by  the  said  board  of  trustees  for  normal  schools. 

Said  inhabitants  of  said  town  of  Machias  at  a  lesral  meeting  selectmen  to 

&  be  authorized 

of  said  inhabitants  called  and  held  within  six  months,  are  here-by  majority 

vote  to  pur- 

by  authorized  and  empowered  by  a  majority  vote  of  the  legal cnase  lot  and 

J          J  buildings. 

voters  voting  at  said  meeting  to  authorize  and  direct  the  select- 
men of  said  town  of  Machias  to  purchase  the  lot  and  buildings 
so  selected  and  approved  by  said  board  of  trustees  for  normal 
schools,  to  donate  said  lot  of  land  and  buildings  to  said  state 
for  the  use  and  purpose  aforesaid,  and  to  instruct  and  direct  the 
said  selectmen  to  make,  execute  and  deliver  for  and  in  behalf 
of  said  inhabitants  a  proper  deed  conveying  said  lot  of  land  and 
buildings  to  the  state  for  the  use  and  purposes  aforesaid.  Said 
deed  shall  be  delivered  to  the  board  of  trustees  of  normal  schools 
who  are  hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to  accept  and  receive 
the  same  for  and  in  behalf  of  said  state,  and  when  so  delivered 
it  shall  be  conclusive  evidence  of  the  legality  of  the  meeting  of 
said  inhabitants  to  be  held  as  aforesaid  and  of  the  proceedings 
at  such  meeting;  and  the  title  of  said  lot  of  land  and  buildings 
thereon,  shall  be  forever  vested  in  said  state  for  the  use  and 
purposes  aforesaid,  and  when  such  conveyance  and  delivery  of  be  forever 

,     .  ,  vested  in 

such  deed  are  made,  said  trustees  are  authorized,  instructed  and  the  state, 
directed  to  procure  teachers  and  put  in  operation  such  school. 
The  cost  of  maintenance  of  such  school  shall  be  deducted  and  Maintenance 
paid  from  the  public  school  fund.     When  so  established,  said  how  paid. 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE. 


Appropria- 
tion. 


How   funds 
shall   be 
used. 


Youths   in 
unorganized 
townships 
may  attend 
any  second- 
ary  school. 


—tuition. 


Classification 
of  high 
schools. 


Class 


school  shall  be  under  the  direction  of  said  board  of  trustees,  be 
conducted  for  the  purposes,  and  upon  the  principle  of  the  other 
state  normal  schools,  and  be  subject  to  all  the  laws  of  the  state 
relating  to  the  same. 

SEC.  3.  For  the  purposes  of  this  act  the  sum  of  twenty-five 
thousand  dollars  is  hereby  appropriated;  such  sum  to  be  avail- 
able only  when  said  lot  and  building  are  donated  to  the  state  as 
provided  in  section  two  of  this  act. 

SEC.  4.  So  much  of  said  sum  of  twenty-five  thousand  dollars 
as  may  be  necessary  shall  be  used  by  said  trustees  for  repairing 
buildings  on  said  lot  of  land  the  balance  to  be  used  in  erecting 
any  other  necessary  building  or  buildings  on  said  lot. 

AN   ACT   TO   EXTEND   THE    PRIVILEGES    OF    SEC- 
ONDARY  INSTRUCTION   TO   YOUTHS   RESIDENT 
IN  UNORGANIZED  TOWNSHIPS. 
(Chap.  62,  P.  L.  1909.) 

Any  youth  who  resides  with  a  parent  or  guardian  in  any 
unorganized  township  in  which  schools  are  regularly  maintained 
may  attend  any  secondary  school  in  the  state  to  which  he  may 
gain  entrance  by  permission  of  those  having  charge  thereof, 
provided  said  school  shall  be  of  standard  grade  approved  by 
the  state  superintendent  of  public  schools.  In  such  case  the 
tuition  of  such  youth  not  to  exceed  thirty  dollars  annually  shall 
be  paid  by  the  state  under  such  provisions  and  regulations  as 
may  be  made  by  the  state  superintendent  and  approved  by  the 
governor  and  council. 

*AN  ACT  FOR  THE  IMPROVEMENT  OF  FREE  HIGH 

SCHOOLS. 
(Chap  71,  P.  L.   1909.) 

SEC.  i.  No  school  shall  be  regarded  as  a  high  school  within 
the  meaning  of  any  of  the  provisions  of  chapter  fifteen  of  the 
revised  statutes  unless  such  school  shall  be  included  in  the  fol- 
lowing classes: 

Class  A.  This  class  shall  include  such  schools  as  maintain 
at  least  one  approved  course  of  study  through  four  years  of 
thirty-six  weeks  each  and  of  standard  grade,  together  with 

*See  also  Sections  55-62,  Chap.  15,  R.  S.,  pages   21-24. 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE.  57 

approved  laboratory  equipment,  and  shall  employ  at  least  two 
teachers,  provided  the  town,  precinct  or  union  maintaining  such 
school  shall  appropriate  and  expend  for  instruction  therein  at 
least  eight  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  annually  exclusive  of  all 
tuition  received. 

Class  B.  This  class  shall  include  such  schools  as  maintain  class 
one  approved  course  of  study  through  at  least  two  years  of 
thirty-six  weeks  and  of  standard  grade  together  with  approved 
equipment,  provided  the  town,  precinct  or  union  maintaining 
such  school  shall  appropriate  and  expend  for  instruction  therein 
at  least  five  hundred  dollars  annually  exclusive  of  all  tuitions 
received. 

Class  C.  This  class  shall  include  such  schools  as  maintain  at  class  c. 
least  one  approved  course  of  study  through  four  years  of  thirty 
weeks  each;  provided  the  town,  precinct  or  union  maintaining 
such  school  shall  appropriate  and  expend  for  instruction  therein 
at  least  four  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  annually  exclusive  of  all 
tuitions  received. 

Sr.c.  2.     A  town,  precinct  or  union  maintaining  a  high  school, 
as:  defined  in  section  one  of  this  act,  shall  be  reimbursed  by  the  towns, 
state  for  two-thirds  of  the  amount  paid  for  instruction  in  such 
school ;  but  in  no  case  shall  more  than  five  hundred  dollars  be 
paid  by  the  state  to  a  town,  precinct  or  union  in  any  one  year. 

SKC.  3.  A  town,  precinct  or  union  maintaining  a  high  school, 
as  provided  in  class  A  of  section  one  of  this  act,  shall  not  be 
obliged  to  pay  tuition  under  section  sixty-three  and  sixty-four 
of  chapter  fifteen.  A  town,  precinct  or  union  maintaining 
high  school,  as  provided  in  class  B  of  section  one  shall  not  be 
obliged  to  pay  tuition  for  any  pupil  until  he  has  completed  the 
first  two  years  of  the  course  of  the  class  B  school,  and  for  only 
two  years  of  subsequent  work.  A  town,  precinct  or  union  main- 
taining a  high  school,  as  provided  in  class  C  of  section  one,  shall 
be  obliged  to  pay  tuition  for  such  portion  of  a  four  years  course 
as  may  be  determined  by  the  state  superintendent  of  public 
schools. 

.    .  Schools   shall 

SEC.  4.     All  schools  of  secondary  grade  receiving  state  aid  be  inspected 

T  annually. 

shall  be  inspected  annually  under  the  direction  of  the  state 
superintendent  of  public  schools,  and  for  this  purpose  he  shall 
be  authorized  to  expend  not  to  exceed  two  thousand  dollars 
annually,  which  sum  shall  be  paid  from  the  state  appropriation 


SCHOOIv    LAWS    OF    MAINS. 


When  other 
state  aid 


for  the  support  of  high  schools;  and  he  shall  determine  what 
schools  are  included  in  the  classification  of  section  one  of  this 
act,  what  schools  maintain  the  courses  of  study,  what  schools 
are  entitled  to  state  aid  and  what  schools  maintain  approved 
courses  for  the  reception  of  tuition  scholars. 

SEC.  5.     After  this  act  takes  effect  all  other  state  aid  for  high 


shall  cease,     schools  as  provided  by  law  shall  cease. 


AN  ACT  ADDITIONAL  TO  CHAPTER  SEVENTY-ONE 
OF  THE  PUBLIC  LAWS  OF  NINETEEN  HUNDRED 
AND     NINE,     ENTITLED     "AN     ACT     FOR  .  THE 
IMPROVEMENT  OF  FREE   HIGH   SCHOOLS." 
(Chap.  196,  P.  L.  1909.) 

state  aid,  State  aid  to  free  high  schools  under  the  provisions  of  chapter 

'  seventy-one  of  the  public  laws  of  nineteen  hundred  and  nine 
shall  be  payable  annually  in  the  month  of  December. 


School 
physicians, 
appoint- 
ment of. 


AN    ACT    RELATIVE    TO    THE    APPOINTMENT    OF 

SCHOOL   PHYSICIANS. 

(Chap.  73,  P.  L.  1909-) 

SEC.  i.  The  school  committee  of  every  city  and  town  shall 
appoint  one  or  more  school  physicians  and  shall  assign  one  to 
the  medical  inspection  of  not  over  one  thousand  pupils  of  the 
public  schools  within  its  city  or  town,  and  shall  provide  them 
with  all  proper  facilities  for  the  performance  of  their  duties 
as  prescribed  in  this  act,  provided,  however,  the  said  committee 
has  been  so  authorized  by  vote  of  town  at  regular  town  meet- 
ing or  at  a  special  town  meeting  called  for  that  purpose. 

SEC.  2.     Every  school  physician  shall  make  a  prompt  exami- 
nation and  diagnosis  of  all  children  referred  to  him  as  herein- 
f  s      after  provided,  and  such  further  examination  of  teachers,  jani- 
tors and  school  buildings  as  in  his  opinion  the  protection  of  the 
health  of  the  pupils  may  require. 

whSmS'treIted.  SEC.  3.  The  pupils  so  examined  by  school  physicians  when 
treatment  is  necessary  shall  not  be  referred  to  the  school  phy- 
sicians for  such  treatment  except  the  school  physician  be  the 


Duties  of 
physician. 


SCHOOL    LAWS    01?    MAINE.  59 

regular  family  physician  of  such  pupil,  but  shall  be  referred  to 
the  regular  family  physician  of  such  pupil  through  the  parents 
or  guardian. 

SEC.  4.     The  school  committee  shall  cause  to  be  referred  to 
a  school  physician  for  examination  and  diagnosis  every  child 
returning  to  a  school  without  a  certificate  from  the  board  of  of  sickness- 
health  or  family  physician  after  absence  on  account  of  illness  or   ' 
from  unknown  cause;  and  every  child  in  the  schools  under  its 
jurisdiction  who  shows  signs  of  being  in  ill  health  or  of  suffer- 
ing from  infectious  or  contagious  diseases,  unless  he  is  at  once 
excluded  from  school  by  the  teacher ;  except  that  in  case  of  — exception, 
schools  in  remote  and  isolated  situations,  the  school  committee 
may  make  such  other  arrangements  as  may  best  carry  out  the 
purposes  of  this  act. 

SEC.  5.     The  school  committee  shall  cause  notice  of  disease  Notice  of 
or  defects,  if  any,  from  which  any  child  is  found  to  be  suffer- defects, 
ing  to  be  sent  home  to  his  parents  or  guardian.     Whenever  a 
child    shows    symptoms    of    smallpox,    scarlet    fever,    measles, 
chicken    pox,    tuberculosis,    diphtheria   or    influenza,   tonsilitis, 
whooping  cough,  mumps,  scabies  or  trachomo,  he  shall  be  sent 
home  immediately  or  as  soon  as  safe  and  proper  conveyance  can 
be  found,  and  the  board  of  health  and  superintendent  of  schools 
shall  at  once  be  notified. 

SEC.  6.     The  school  committee  of  every  city  or  town  shall  ^fghTS 
cause  every  child  in  the  public  schools  to  be  separately  and  care-  tearing, 
fully  tested  and  examined  at  least  once  in  every  school  year  to 
ascertain  whether  he  is  suffering  from  defective  sight  or  hear- 
ing or  from  any  other  disability  or  defect  tending  to  prevent 
his  receiving  the  full  benefit  of  his  school  work,  or  requiring  a 
modification  of  the  school  work  in  order  to  prevent  injury  to 
the  child  or  to  secure  the  best  educational  results.     Tests  of 
sight  and  hearing  shall  be  made  by  the  teachers  or  by  the  school 
physicians.     The  committee  shall  cause  notice  of  any  defect  or —notice  to 

J  ,  parent  or 

disability  requiring  treatment  to  be  sent  to  the  parent  or  guar-  guardian, 
dian  of  the  child,  and  shall  require  a  physical  record  of  each 
child,  to  be  kept  in  such  form  as  the  state  superintendent  of 
public  schools  shall  prescribe  after  consultation  with  the  state 
board  of  health. 


6o 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE. 


State  super- 
intendent of 
schools    shall 
prescribe 
directions 
for  tests  of 
sight  and; 
hearing. 

— amount    to 
be  expended. 


Expense   that 
may   be 
incurred  by 
city  or  town. 


Applies  to 
cities  and 
towns 

having  less 
than  forty 
thousand 
inhabitants. 


Plans  and 
specifica- 
tions for 
school 
buildings 
to  be  fur- 
nished by 
state  super- 
intendent. 


— appropri- 
ation. 


Plans  and 
specifica- 
tions to  be 
approved. 


SEC.  7.  The  state  superintendent  of  public  schools  shall  pre- 
scribe after  consultation  with  the  state  board  of  health  the 
directions  for  tests  of  sight  and  hearing,  and  shall  prescribe  and 
furnish  to  the  school  committees  suitable  rules  of  instruction, 
test  cards,  blanks,  record  books  and  other  useful  appliances  for 
carrying  out  the  purposes  of  this  act.  The  state  superintendent 
of  public  schools  may  expend  during  the  year  nineteen  hundred 
and  nine  a  sum  not  greater  than  five  hundred  dollars  for  the 
purpose  of  supplying  the  material  required  for  this  act. 

SEC.  8.  Expenses  which  a  city  or  town  may  incur  by  virtue 
of  the  authority  herein  vested  in  the  school  committee  shall  not 
exceed  the  amount  appropriated  for  that  purpose  in  cities  by 
the  city  council  and  in  towns  by  a  town  meeting.  The  appro- 
priation shall  precede  any  expenditure  of  any  indebtedness 
which  may  be  incurred  under  this  act  and  the  sum  appropriated 
shall  be  deemed  sufficient  appropriation  in  the  municipality 
where  it  is  made.  Such  appropriation  need  not  specify  to  what 
section  of  the  act  it  shall  apply  and  may  be  voted  as  a  total 
appropriation  to  be  applied  in  carrying  out  the  purposes  of  this 
act. 

SEC.  9.  The  provisions  of  this  act  shall  apply  only  to  cities 
and  towns  having  a  population  of  less  than  forty  thousand 
inhabitants. 

AN  ACT  RELATIVE  TO   SCHOOL   BUILDINGS. 
(Chap.  88,  P.  L.  1909.) 

SEC.  i.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  state  superintendent  of 
public  schools  to  procure  architect's  plans  and  specifications  for 
not  to  exceed  four  room  school  buildings,  and  full  detail  work- 
ing plans  therefor.  Said  plans  and  specifications  shall  be 
loaned  to  any  superintending  school  committee  or  school  build- 
ing committee  desiring  to  erect  a  new  school  building.  For  the 
use  of  the  state  superintendent  of  public  schools  in  procuring 
such  plans  and  specifications  the  sum  of  two  hundred  dollars  is 
hereby  appropriated  for  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  nine 
and  a  like  sum  for  the  year  nineteen  hundred  and  ten. 

SEC.  2.  Where  the  plans  and  specifications  prepared  by  the 
state  superintendent  are  not  used,  all  superintending  school 
committees  of  towns  in  which  new  schoolhouses  are  to  be 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE.  6l 

erected,  shall  make  suitable  provision  for  the  heating,  lighting 
and  ventilating  and  hygienic  conditions  of  such  buildings,  and 
all  plans  and  specifications  for  any  such  proposed  school  build- 
ings shall  be  submitted  to  and  approved  by  the  state  superin- 
tendent of  public  schools  and  the  state  board  of  health  before 
the  same  shall  be  accepted  by  the  superintending  school  com- 
mittee or  school  building  committee  of  the  town  in  which  it  is 
proposed  to  erect  such  building. 

SEC.    3.      In   case   no   special   building   committee   has   been  when  school 
chosen  by  the  towrn,  the  superintending  school  committee  shall  SSSFhave 
have  charge  of   the  erection  or  reconstruction  of  any   school  construction, 
building,   provided   that    said   superintending   school   committee 
may.  if  they  see  fit,  delegate  said  power  and  duty  to  the  superin- 
tendent of  schools. 

AN   ACT   FOR   THE   SAFEGUARDING   OF   SCHOOLS 

AGAINST    DANGER    FROM    FIRE. 

(Chap.  loo,  P.  L.  1909.) 

SEC.  T.     Any  building  which  is  used  in  whole  or  in  part  as  a  School 

.  ,  .  ,  buildings 

schoolhouse   shall  be  provided  with  proper   egresses  or  other  shall  have 

c  f  r-  rr    •  <•          i  r      11  proper  exits. 

means  of  escape  from  fire  sufficient  for  the  use  of  all  persons 
therein  accommodated.     These  egresses  and  means  of   escape — kepi  in 
shall  be  kept  unobstructed,  in  good  repair  and  ready  for  use. 
Stairways  on  the  outside  of  the  building  shall  have   suitable —stairways, 
railed  landings  at  each  story  above  the  first,  accessible  at  each 

.      —doors  and 
story  from  doors  or  windows  and  such  stairways,  doors  or  win-  windows. 

dows  shall  be  kept  clean  of  snow,  ice  and  other  obstructions. 

In  school  buildings  of  more  than  one  story  there  shall  be  at  least  buildings  of 

p  1      •     •  1  ,  •  1      ^  •  i more  tnan 

two  separate  means  of  egress  by  inside  or  outside  stairway,  and  one  story. 

each  story  above  the  first  shall  be  supplied  with  means  of  extin- 
guishing fire  consisting  of  pails  of  water  or  other  portable  appa- 
ratus, or  of  a  hose  attached  to  a  suitable  water  supply  and  such 
appliance  shall  be  kept  at  all  times  ready  for  use  and  in  good 
condition.  Upon  written  notification  by  the  superintending  _when  mu_ 
school  committee  that  any  school  building  does  not  meet 
specifications  herein  named,  the  municipal  officers  of  the 
shall  at  once  proceed  to  correct  the  defects,  and  any  failure  so  to 
act  shall  render  the  town  liable  to  the  provisions  of  section  six- 
teen of  chapter  fifteen  of  the  revised  statutes. 


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Assessment 
of  tax  for 
support  of 
schools. 


How  tax 
shall  be 
assessed. 


How  fund 
shall  be 
distributed. 


Unexpended 
fund,  how 
disposed   of. 


All  money  to 
be  expended 
for  common 
schools. 


How  money 
received  by 
towns  shall 
be  deemed 
to  have 
been  raised. 

This  act  not 
to  affect 
certain  pro- 
visions of 
the  revised 
statutes. 


*AN  ACT  RELATING  TO  THE  COMMON  SCHOOL 
FUND  AND  THE  MEANS  OF  PROVIDING  FOR  AND 
DISTRIBUTING  THE  SAME. 

(Chap.  177,  P.  L.  1909-) 

SEC.  i.  A  tax  of  one  and  one-half  mills  on  a  dollar  shall 
annually  be  assessed  upon  all  of  the  property  in  the  state  accord- 
ing to  the  valuation  thereof  and  shall  be  known  as  the  tax  for 
the  support  of  the  common  schools. 

SEC.  2.  This  tax  shall  be  assessed  and  collected  in  the  same 
manner  as  other  state  taxes  and  shall  be  paid  into  the  state 
treasury  and  designated  as  the  common  school  fund. 

SEC.  3.  One-third  of  this  fund  shall  be  distributed  by  the 
treasurer  of  state  on  the  first  day  of  January,  annually,  to  the 
several  cities,  towns  and  plantations  according  to  the  number 
of  scholars  therein,  as  the  same  shall  appear  from  the  official 
returns,  made  to  the  state  superintendent  of  public  schools  for 
the  preceding  year  and  the  remaining  two-thirds  of  said  fund 
shall  be  distributed  by  the  treasurer  of  state  on  the  first  day  of 
January,  annually,  to  the  several  cities,  towns  and  plantations 
according  to  the  valuation  thereof  as  the  same  shall  be  fixed  by 
the  state  assessors,  for  the  preceding  year. 

SEC.  4.  All  of  the  said  fund  not  distributed  or  expended 
•during  the  financial  year,  shall  at  its  close,  be  added  to  the  per- 
manent school  fund. 

SEC.  5.  All  moneys  provided  by  towns,  or  apportioned  by 
the  state  for  the  support  of  common  schools,  shall  be  expended 
for  the  maintenance  of  common  schools,  established  and  con- 
trolled by  the  towns  by  which  said  moneys  are  provided,  or  to 
which  said  moneys  are  apportioned. 

SEC.  6.  Sums  received  by  any  city,  town  or  plantation  from 
the  distribution  provided  by  section  three,  shall  be  deemed  to  be 
raised  by  such  city,  town  or  plantation  within  the  meaning  of 
revised  statutes,  chapter  fifteen,  section  thirteen,  as  amended. 

SEC.  7.  The  passage  of  this  act  shall  in  no  wise  affect  the 
provisions  of  sections  one  hundred  twenty-four,  one  hundred 
twenty-five,  one  hundred  twenty-six  and  one  hundred  twenty- 


*Additional   to   Sections   124,   125,   126    and   127,  Chap.   15,   R.    S.,   pages 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINS.  63 

seven  of  chapter  fifteen  of  the  revised  statutes,  or  of  section 
two  of  chapter  one  hundred  and  eleven  of  the  public  laws  of 
nineteen  hundred  and  seven. 


ACT    FOR    THE    EQUALIZATION    OF    SCHOOL 

PRIVILEGES. 
(Chap.  198,  P.  L.  1909.) 

SEC.  i.  The  treasurer  of  state  shall  immediately  after  the 
first  day  of  July,  nineteen  hundred  and  eleven,  and  annually  ^^ 
thereafter  deduct  the  sum  of  twenty-seven  thousand  five  hun- 
dred dollars  from  the  state  school  funds  and  the  same  shall  be 
set  aside  and  denominated  the  school  equalization  fund  which 
shall  be  used  in  the  manner  hereinafter  designated  for  the  pur- 
po>e  of  aiding  those  towns  wherein  a  rate  of  taxation  consider- 
ably in  excess  of  the  average  rate  for  the  state  fails  to  produce 
a  >chool  revenue  sufficient  to  secure  a  reasonable  standard  of 
educational  efficiency. 

SEC.  2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  state  superintendent  of  distribution, 
public  schools  to  cause  a  special  investigation  to  be  made  of1' 
the  educational  facilities  of  such  towns  as  are  included  under 
section  one  of  this  act  and,  whenever  it  appears  to  the  state 
superintendent  that  any  town  should  receive  special  aid  or  en- 
couragement for  the  purpose  of  raising  the  standard  of  quali- 
fications of  common  school  teachers  or  of  increasing  the  length 
of  the  school  year  or  otherwise  adding  to  the  efficiency  of  the 
common  schools  he  shall  issue  to  the  governor  and  council  a 
recommendation  relative  thereto  and  the  governor  and  council 
shall  have  authority  to  draw  a  warrant  in  the  favor  of  the 
treasurer  of  said  town  for  the  payment  from  the  equalization 
fund  of  a  sum  which  shall  be  expended  under  the  direction  of 
the  superintending  school  committee  of  said  town  in  accordance 
with  the  recommendation  as  made  by  the  state  superintendent 
of  public  schools  and  within  the  purposes  of  this  act.  The 
state  superintendent  of  public  schools  shall  be  authorized  to— special 

.  .        .  .  .  .,.  .  investigation 

expend  for  the  special  investigation  of  educational  facilities  as  of  educa- 
herein  provided  a  sum  not  to  exceed  two  thousand  dollars  which  facilities, 
shall  be  deducted  from  the  equalization  fund  and  he  shall  an- 
nually publish  in  his  printed  report  a  complete  statement  rela- 
tive to  all  disbursements  as  provided  in  this  act. 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE). 


Fund  not 
expended, 
how  dis- 
posed of. 


SEC.  3.  All  of  the  school  equalization  fund  not  distributed 
nor  expended  during  the  financial  year  shall  at  its  close  be 
added  to  the  permanent  school  fund. 


Sections  52, 
53  and  54, 
chapter  40, 
R.  S.  as 
amended, 
repealed. 


Chapter  40, 
R.  S., 
amended. 

Child  under 
fourteen 
years  of 
age,   not  to 
be  employed 
in  manufac- 
turing es- 
tablishments, 
etc. 


— penalty. 


Chapter  40, 
R.  S., 
amended. 

Conditions 
under  which 
a  child 
between   the 
ages   of   14 
and  16  years 
may   be 
employed. 


AX  ACT  TO  AMEND  CHAPTER  FORTY  OF  THE 
REVISED  STATUTES  AND  CHAPTER  FORTY-SIX 
OF  THE  PUBLIC  LAWS  OF  NINETEEN  HUNDRED 
AND  SEVEN,  RELATING  TO  THE  EMPLOYMENT 
OF  MINORS  IN  MANUFACTURING  OR  MECHAN- 
ICAL ESTABLISHMENTS  IN  THIS  STATE. 
(Chap.  257.  P.  L.  1909.) 

SEC.  i.  Sections  fifty-two,  fifty-three  and  fifty-four  of  chap- 
ter forty  of  the  revised  statutes  as  amended  by  chapter  forty- 
six  of  the  public  laws  of  nineteen  hundred  and  seven  are  hereby 
repealed. 

SEC.  2.  Chapter  forty  of  the  revised  statutes  is  hereby 
amended  by  inserting  as  section  fifty-two  the  following: 

'Section  52.  No  child  under  fourteen  years  of  age  shall  be 
employed  or  allowed  to  work  in  or  in  connection  with  any  man- 
ufacturing or  mechanical  establishment.  It  shall  be  unlawful 
for  any  person,  firm  or  corporation  to  employ  for  wages  or  hire 
any  child  under  fourteen  years  of  age  in  any  manufacturing, 
mechanical,  mercantile  or  other  business  establishment,  or  in 
any  telephone  or  telegraph  office ;  or  in  the  delivery  and  trans- 
mission of  telephone  or  telegraph  messages  during  the  hours 
that  the  public  schools  of  the  town  or  city  in  which  he  resides 
are  in  session.  Whoever,  either  for  himself,  or  as  superintend- 
ent, overseer  or  agent  or  another,  employs  or  has  in  his  employ 
any  child  in  violation  of  the  provisions  of  this  section,  and  every 
parent  or  guardian  who  allows  any  child  to  be  so  employed 
shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  not  less  than  one  dollar  nor  exceed- 
ing fifty  dollars  for  each  offense.' 

SEC.  3.  Chapter  forty  of  the  revised  statutes  is  hereby 
amended  by  inserting  as  section  fifty-three  the  following: 

'Section  53.  No  child  over  fourteen  years  of  age  and  under 
sixteen  years  of  age  shall  be  employed  or  allowed  to  work  in  any 
manufacturing  or  mechanical  establishment  until  he,  or  some 
one  in  his  behalf,  shall  have  produced  and  presented  to  the 
owner,  superintendent,  overseer  or  agent  or  such  establishment, 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE.  65 

a  certified  copy  of  the  town  clerk's  record  of  the  birth  of  such 
child,  or  a  certified  copy  of  his  baptismal  record  showing  the 
date  of  his  birth ;  or  his  passport  showing  the  date  of  his  birth ; 
or  an  age  and  schooling  certificate  duly  issued  to  him  as  herein- 
after provided.  No  such  child  between  his  fourteenth  and  fif- 
tcenth  birthdays  shall  be  employed  or  allowed  to  work  in  any 
manufacturing,  mechanical,  mercantile  or  other  business  estab- 
lishment, or  in  any  telephone  or  telegraph  office;  or  in  the  de- 
livery and  transmission  of  telephone  or  telegraph  messages  dur- 
ing the  hours  in  which  the  public  schools  of  the  city  or  town  in 
which  he  resides  are  in  session,  until  he  shall  have  produced  and 
presented  to  the  owner,  superintendent,  overseer  or  agent  of 
such  establishment  an  age  and  schooling  certificate  duly  issued 
to  him  as  hereinafter  provided.  No  such  child  between  his  fif- 
tcenth  and  sixteenth  birthdays  shall  be  employed  or  allowed  to  birthdays, 
work  in  any  manufacturing  or  mechanical  establishment  during 
the  hours  in  which  the  public  schools  of  the  city  or  town  in 
which  he  resides  are  in  session,  until  he  shall  have  produced  and 
presented  to  the  owner,  superintendent,  overseer  or  agent  of 
such  establishment  an  age  and  schooling  certificate  duly  issued 
to  him  as  hereinafter  provided.  The  employer  shall  keep  on  file  shall  keep 

,       i        ,    on  file  record 

such  birth  record,  baptismal  record,  passport  or  age  and  school-  Of  child 
ing  certificate  in  duplicate  containing  the  name  of  such  child, en 
the  name  of  his  parents,  guardian  or  custodian,  and  such  data 
as  may  be  required  by  the  commissioner  of  labor.     Blank  em- 
ployment  certificates,  in  form  approved  by  the  attorney  general, ce 
shall  be  furnished  by  the  commissioner  of  labor.     One  of  such 
certificates  shall  be  delivered  to  such  child  and  the  other  be 
immediately  forwarded  to  the  office  of  said  commissioner  of 
labor  to  be  kept  on  file  by  him.     When  such  child  leaves  such 
employment,  the  employer  shall  return  to  such  child  the  copy 
of   the   town   record,   baptismal    record,   passport  or   age   and 
schooling  certificate  furnished  by  him  as  aforesaid,  and  shall 
immediately  notify  said  inspector  that  such  child  has  left  .his 
employ.     The  commissioner  of  labor  or  any  of  his  assistants, 
may  demand  of  any  employer  or  corporation  the  names  of  all  labor  to 
children  under  sixteen  years  of  age  in  his  employ  in  the  sev-  certTficates. 
eral  cities  and  towns  of  the  state,  and  may  require  that  the  li 
birth  record,  baptismal  record,  passport  or  age  and  schooling 
certificate  of  such  children  shall  be  produced  for  his  inspection, 
5 


66 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE). 


— penalty  for 
violation  of 
this  section. 


Chapter  40, 
R.  S., 
amended. 

Age  and 
schooling 
certificate 
shall  be 
issued. 


— excuses 
from  school 
attendance. 
1911,  c.   118. 


Chapter  40, 
R.  S., 
amended. 

Age  and 
schooling 
certificate 
shall   not 
be   Issued 
unless  evi- 
dence of 
age   of  child 
Is  furnished. 


— nor  till 
child    has 
passed 
educational 
test. 


and  the  failure  to  produce  the  same  shall  be  prima  facie  evi- 
dence that  the  employment  of  such  child  is  illegal.  Whoever, 
either  for  himself,  or  as  superintendent,  overseer  or  agent  of 
another,  employs  or  has  in  his  employment  any  child  in  viola- 
tion of  the  provisions  of  this  section,  and  every  parent  or  guar- 
dian who  allows  any  child  to  be  so  employed  shall  be  punished 
by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  one  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars  for 
each  offense/ 

SEC.  4.  Chapter  forty  of  the  revised  statutes  is  hereby 
amended  by  inserting  as  section  fifty-four  the  following: 

'Section  54.  Age  and  schooling  certificates  shall  be  issued  by 
the  superintendent  of  schools  of  the  city  or  town  in  which  the 
child  resides,  or  some  person  designated  and  authorized  in 
writing  by  the  school  committee,  and  such  age  and  schooling 
certificate  when  duly  issued  shall  excuse  such  child  from  attend- 
ance at  public  school ;  but  no  person  shall  issue  such  certificate 
to  any  minor  then  in  or  about  to  enter  his  employment,  or  the 
employment  of  a  firm  or  corporation  of  which  he  is  a  member, 
stockholder,  officer  or  employee.  The  person  who  issues  the 
certificate  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this  section  is 
hereby  empowered  to  administer  the  oath  provided  for  therein, 
but  no  fee  shall  be  charged  therefor/ 

SEC.  5.  Chapter  forty  of  the  revised  statutes  is  hereby 
amended  by  inserting  as  section  fifty-five  the  following: 

'Section  55.  An  age  and  schooling  certificate  shall  not  be 
issued  until  the  child  applying  therefor,  or  some  person  in  his 
behalf,  shall  furnish  satisfactory  evidence  of  the  age  of  the 
child,  which  evidence  shall  be  a  certified  copy  of  the  town  clerk's 
record  of  the  birth  of  said  child,  or  a  certified  copy  of  his  bap- 
tismal record,  showing  the  date  of  his  birth,  or  a  passport  show- 
ing the  date  of  his  birth,  or  other  document  satisfactory  to  the 
superintendent  of  schools  or  the  person  authorized  to  issue  such 
age  and  schooling  certificates ;  nor  until  such  child  has  demon- 
strated his  ability  to  read  at  sight  and  write  simple  sentences  in 
the  English  language,  and  perform  simple  arithmetical  prob- 
lems involving  the  fundamental  processes  of  addition,  subtrac- 
tion, multiplication  and  division,  such  educational  test  to  be  pre- 
pared and  furnished  by  the  superintendent  of  schools  or  the 
school  committee  of  each  city  and  town  in  the  state ;  or  has  fur- 
nished a  certificate  to  that  effect  signed  by  any  teacher  in  any 


SCHOOIv    LAWS    OF    MAINE.  6/ 

of  the  public  schools  of  the  city  or  town  in  which  such  child  ~~°r  is  ™s' 
resides,  or  by  the  principal  of  any  approved  private  school,  ortend?nt  of 
a  certificate  signed  by  the  principal  of  any  evening  school  inschooL 
said  city  or  town,  to  the  effect  that  said  child  is  a  regular  attend- 
ant of  said  evening  school/ 

SEC.   6.      Chapter    forty   of   the   revised   statutes   is   hereby  Chapter  40» 
amended  by  inserting  as  section  fifty-six  the  following:  amended. 

'Section  56.     The  form  of  the  age  and  schooling  certificate  ^^1^11 
.provided  for  in  section  fifty-three  of  this  act  shall  be  prepared  and 


and  furnished  to  the  superintendent  of  schools  or  the  school  form  of 

certificates. 

committee  of  the  cities  and  towns  by  the  attorney  general  and 
shall  be  substantially  as  follows  : 


AGE   AND   SCHOOLING   CERTIFICATE. 

Revised  Statutes,  Chapter  forty,  Section  fifty-three. 

• 

This  certifies  that  I  am  the ,  father,  mother,  Form  of 

i-                           1-             r  f     i  -1  ,  certificate, 

guardian  or  custodian,  ot   ,  name  of  child,  and 

that  he  was  born  at ,  name  of  city  or  town,  in  the 

state,  or  county,  of on  the  ....  day  of 

in  the  year and  that  at,  his  or  her,  last  birthday' 

he  was  ....  years  old. 
City  or  town  and  date. 

,   Signature  of  parent, 

guardian  or  custodian. 

Then  personally  appeared  before  me  the  above  named. 

name  of  person  signing,  and  having  produced  for  my  inspec- 
tion the record  passport  of  said  child,  made  oath 

that  the  foregoing  certificate  by him  or  her,  signed  is 

true  to  the  best  of his  or  her,  knowledge  and  belief. 

Having  no  sufficient  reason  to  doubt  that he  is 

of  the  age  therein  certified,  I  hereby  approve  the  foregoing  cer- 
tificate of name  of  child ;  whose  signature,  written  in 

my  presence,  appears  below ;  whose  height  is   feet  and 

inches ;  complexion  is fair  or  dark ;  hair  is 

color.     I  hereby  certify  that he  has  satisfac- 
torily demonstrated '. ,  his  or  her,  ability  to  read  at 

sight  and  to  write  legible  simple  sentences  in  the  English  lan- 
guage, and  to  employ  the  fundamental  principles  of  arithmetic, 


68 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE. 


Penalty  for 
certifying 
to  false 
statement 
or  present- 
ing  certifi- 
cate con- 
taining false 
statement. 


Sections    57, 
58,  59,  60,  61 
and  62, 
chapter  40, 
R.   S.,   re- 
numbered. 


according  to  the  test  supplied  by  the  local  superintendent  of 
public  schools;  that  he  has  presented  us  a  certificate  to  that 
effect  signed  by  the  principal  a  teacher  of  some  public  school  in 
said  town,  or  that  he  has  presented  a  certificate  signed  by  the 
principal  of  an  evening  school  in  said  town  to  the  effect  that  he, 
said  child  is  a  regular  attendant  in  said  evening  school. 

This  certificate  belongs  to  ,  name  of  child, 

and  is  to  be  surrendered  to ,  him  or  her,  whenever 

he  leaves  the  service  of  the  employer  holding  the  same,  but  if 
not  claimed  by  said  minor  within  thirty  days  from  the  time 

when he  leaves  such  employment,  it  shall  be  returned 

to  the  superintendent  of  schools,  or  to  the  person  by  whom  it  is 

issued. 

Signature  of  child. 

Signature  of  person  authorized  to  issue  and 
approve,  with  official  character  or  authority. 
City  and  town  and  date.  m 

Whoever,  being  authorized  to  sign  the  foregoing  age  and 
schooling  certificate,  or  whoever  signing  any  certified  copy  of 
a  town  clerk's  record  of  births,  or  certified  copy  of  a  child's 
baptismal  record,  shall  knowingly  certify  to  any  false  statement 
therein,  and  any  parent  or  guardian  who  presents,  or  who  per- 
mits or  allows  any  child  under  his  control  to  present,  to  any 
employer,  owner,  superintendent,  overseer  or  agent  as  required 
under  section  fifty-three,  any  certified  copy  of  birth  or  baptismal 
record,  or  passport,  or  age  and  schooling  certificate  containing 
any  false  statements  as  to  the  date  of  birth  or  age  of  such  child, 
knowing  them  to  be  false,  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less 
than  twenty-five  dollars  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars  for  each 
offense/ 

SEC.  7.  Sections  fifty-seven,  fifty-eight,  fifty-nine,  sixty, 
sixty-one  and  sixty-two  of  said  chapter  forty  of  the  revised 
statutes  are  hereby  renumbered  respectively  as  sections  fifty- 
eight,  fifty-nine,  sixty,  sixty-one,  sixty-two  and  sixty-three,  so 
that  said  section  fifty-seven  shall  hereafter  be  numbered  section 
fifty-eight;  said  section  fifty-eight  shall  hereafter  be  numbered 
section  fifty-nine ;  said  section  fifty-nine  shall  hereafter  be  num- 
bered section  sixty;  section  sixty  shall  hereafter  be  numbered 
section  sixty-one ;  section  sixty-one  shall  hereafter  be  numbered 
section  sixty-two ;  and  section  sixty-two  shall  hereafter  be  num- 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE).  69 

bered   section   sixty-three;   and   said   chapter   forty   is   further 
amended  by  inserting  as  section  fifty-seven  the  following: 

'Section   ^7.     Nothing  in  the  nine   preceding:  sections   shall Sha11  not 

&  .  .  ^  apply  to   es- 

apply  to  any  manufacturing  establishment  or  business,  the  ma-  tabiishments, 

r  .  J  J  p  .  ;  the  materials 

terials  and  products  of  which  are  perishable  and  require  imme-°r  products 

of  which  are 

diate  labor  thereon,  to  prevent  decay  thereof  or  damage  there- perishable, 
to.     Provided,    however,   the   employment   of   children  therein — proviso, 
shall  be  under  the  supervision  of  said  inspector  who  shall  on 
complaint  investigate  the  sanitary  conditions,  hours  of  labor  and 
other  conditions  detrimental  to  children,  and  if  in  his  judgment 
he  finds  detrimental  conditions  to  exist,  he  may  in  conjunction 
with  the  municipal  officers  of  the  town  or  city  in  which  the  com- 
plaint  is   made,   prohibit  the   employment   of   children  therein 
until  such  conditions  are  removed/ 


AX   ACT   FOR  THE  ENCOURAGEMENT  OF  INDUS- 
TRIAL  EDUCATION. 

(Chap.  188,  P.  L.  1911-) 

SEC.  i.     The  state  superintendent  of  public  schools  shall  be  state  super- 
charged with  the  duty  of  extending  the  investigation  of  meth-  shS^fnves- 
ods  of  industrial  education,  he  shall  advise  and  aid  in  the  intro-  SKid  in 
duction  of  industrial  courses  into  free  high  schools  and  acad-  SusYriai 
emies  aided  by  the  state  and  shall  report  on  all  special  schools educa1 
in   which   industrial  education  is  carried  on.     It   shall  be  his 
duty  to  inspect  the  courses  of  study  offered  in  such  free  high 
schools  and  academies  and  he  shall  have  authojity  to  approve 
such  courses  in  all  schools  aided  by  the  state. 

SEC.  2.     The  trustees  of  the  state  normal  schools  shall  cause  Industriai 
to  be  introduced  into  all  of  the  said  normal  schools  such  courses 
in  manual  arts,  domestic  science  and  agriculture  as  will  enable gj 
their  graduates  to  teach  elementary  courses  in  those  subjects  schools- 
in  the  rural  and  grade  schools.     In  not  more  than  one  of  said 
schools  the  course  in  manual  training  shall  be  so  extended  as 
to  offer  opportunity  to  persons  desiring  to  qualify  as  special 
teachers  of  that  branch,  and  in  not  more  than  one  the  course 
in   domestic   science   shall  be   so   extended  as  to   offer   similar 
opportunity  to  persons  desiring  to  qualify  as  special  teachers 


SCHOOL    LAWS    0£    MAINE. 


— expendi- 
ture. 


Aid  to  towns 
for  courses  in 
elementary 
schools. 


— amount. 


— approval. 


Aid    for 
courses  in 
secondary 
schools. 


— amount. 


thereof.  For  the  two  special  courses  thus  offered  the  trustees 
are  authorized  to  expend  annually  not  to  exceed  four  thousand 
dollars,  which  shall  be  additional  to  other  sums  appropriated 
for  the  support  of  said  normal  schools  and  which  the  treasurer 
of  state  shall  deduct  from  any  funds  raised  for  the  support  of 
common  schools. 

SEC.  3.  Whenever  the  superintendent  of  schools  of  any  town 
shall  certify  under  oath  to  the  state  superintendent  of  public 
schools  according  to  form  prescribed  by  the  state  superintend- 
ent, that  instruction  in  manual  training  or  domestic  science  has 
been  provided  pupils  of  elementary  schools  for  the  year  pre- 
ceding, then  upon  approval  of  such  certificate  of  the  state  super- 
intendent of  schools  state  aid  shall  be  paid  to  the  amount  of 
two-thirds  the  total  salary  paid  each  teacher,  provided  that  the 
amount  so  paid  by  the  state  for  the  employment  of  any  one 
instructor  shall  not  exceed  eight  hundred  dollars  in  one  year 
and  provided  further  that  the  appropriation  made  by  the  town 
for  this  purpose  shall  be  exclusive  of  any  other  sum  received 
from  the  state  for  the  support  of  common  schools  and  of  the 
minimum  requirement  raised  by  the  town  as  prescribed  by  sec- 
tion thirteen  of  chapter  fifteen  of  the  revised  statutes  as  amend- 
ed, and  provided  further  that  the  course  of  study,  equipment 
and  qualifications  of  instructors  shall  have  been  approved  by  the 
state  superintendent  of  public  schools. 

SEC.  4.  The  superintending  school  committee  having  charge 
of  any  free  high  school  or  the  trustees  of  any  incorporated 
academy  may  provide  for  instruction  therein  in  the  principles 
of  agriculture  and  the  domestic  and  mechanic  arts.  Whenever 
it  shall  be  made  to  appear  to  the  governor  and  council,  from 
returns  made  as  herein  provided,  that  in  any  free  high  school 
or  academy  instruction  has  been  furnished  during  the  preceding 
year  in  the  principles  of  agriculture,  the  mechanic  arts  or  do- 
mestic science  the  said  governor  and  council  shall  direct  the 
treasurer  of  state  to  pay  to  the  town  supporting  such  free  high 
school  or  to  the  treasurer  of  such  academy  in  addition  to  other 
state  aid  if  any,  a  sum  equal  to  two-thirds  the  total  expenditure 
for  instruction  in  each  of  said  courses,  provided,  however,  that 
no  school  shall  receive  a  total  in  excess  of  five  hundred  dollars 
in  any  one  year  for  the  support  of  said  courses,  and  provided 
that  state  aid  shall  not  be  allowed  for  any  course  which  has  an 


SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE.  Jl 

average  attendance  of  less  than  twelve  students  and  provided 

further  that  such  aid  shall  not  be  granted  unless  the  course  of  — aPPr°vai. 

study,   equipment   and   qualifications   of   instructors   shall   first 

have    been    approved    by    the    state    superintendent    of    public 

schools. 

SEC.  5.     Chapter  one  hundred  and  two  of  the  public  laws 
nineteen  hundred   and  nine  is  hereby  repealed.  repealed. 

SEC.  6.  Whenever  the  superintending  school  committee  of 
any  town  shall  have  maintained  during  the  school  year  an  even- 
ing  school  as  provided  by  section  twenty-two  of  the,  revised 
statutes  said  town  shall  be  reimbursed  by  the  state  a  sum  equal 
to  two-thirds  the  amount  paid  for  instruction  in  such  evening 
school  provided  there  shall  have  been  offered,  in  addition  t«* 
the  subjects  elsewhere  prescribed  for  evening  schools,*  courses 
in  free  hand  or  mechanical  drawing,  domestic  science  or  man- 
ual training  or  the  elements  of  the  trades. 

SEC.  7.     The  superintending  school  committee  of  any  town  Establish- 
when  authorized  by  vote  of  the  town  shall  establish  and  main-  general 

f     \  ,  ...  ,        ,  ,.  industrial 

tain  as  a  part  of  the  public  school  system  of  such  towrn  a  gen-  schools, 
eral  industrial  school  for  the  teaching  of  agriculture,  household 
science,  the  mechanic  arts  and  the  trades.  Such  general  in- 
dustrial schools  shall  be  open  to  pupils  who  have  completed  the 
elementary  school  course  or  who  have  attained  the  age  of  fif- 
teen years.  The  authority  and  duties  of  the  superintending 
school  committee  and  of  the  superintendent  of  schools  in  rela- 
tion to  such  industrial  schools  shall  be  the  same  as  in  the  case 
of  the  common  and  high  schools,  but  the  support  of  such  schools  —support, 
shall  be  derived  from  funds  raised  in  addition  to  any  sums 
appropriated  for  the  support  of  common  and  high  schools. 
Whenever  it  shall  be  made  to  appear  to  the  governor  and  coun- -state  aid. 
cil  that  any  town  has  provided  instruction  in  the  trades  and 
industries  in  a  general  industrial  school  maintained  therein  for 
a  period  of  thirty-six  weeks  during  the  school  year,  and  em- 
ploying at  least  one  teacher  whose  work  is  devoted  exclusively 
to  such  instruction  and  having  an  average  attendance  of  at  least 
twenty  pupils  the  governor  and  council  shall  direct  the  treas- 
urer of  state  to  pay  to  the  treasurer  of  such  town  a  sum  equal —amount, 
to  two-thirds  the  total  amount  spent  for  instruction  in  said 
school  provided  that  not  more  than  two  thousand  dollars  shall 
be  paid  by  the  state  to  any  one  town  in  any  year. 


72  SCHOOL    LAWS    OF    MAINE. 

Appropria-  $%c.  8.  For  the  purposes  of  this  act  there  shall  be  de- 
ducted annually  by  the  treasurer  of  state  from  the  school  and 
mill  fund  the  sum  of  twenty-seven  thousand  five  hundred  dol- 
lars and  any  of  this  amount  so  deducted  that  is  not  apportioned 
during  the  financial  year  shall  at  its  close  be  added  to  the  per- 

— reports  manent  school  fund.  All  reports  required  under  this  act  shall 
be  filed  annually  with  the  state  superintendent  of  public  schools 
on  or  before  the  first  day  of  July  and  state  aid  shall  be  payable 
during  the  month  of  December  next  succeeding. 


INDEX. 


Section.     Page. 

Abetting-    truancy    53                 20 

Academies,    aid    to    76                 28 

attendance    at     80                 29 

courses   at    76                  28 

income    of    81                   29 

incorporation    or     79                  29 

payments    to    77                  29 

reports   of    82                  30 

towns  providing  free  tuition  in 78                  29 

trustees    of    72-                 27 

Academy    property     72                 27 

conveyance     of     73                  27 

income    of    74                  27 

Adjoining*   towns,    attendance    in 50                 19 

support    of    high    schools    in 56                  21 

Admittance  to  Home  for  Feeble  Minded 7                 48 

School  for  Deaf  5                 45 

Age   certificates    4                 66 

of    employment    2                 64 

school     27                  10 

Ag-ents   of   Schools    in   Unorganized   Townships 96                  34 

Annual   report   of  State   Superintendent    100                  37 

returns  of  Municipal   Officers    28                  10 

Superintendents     37                  14 

Appeal  by  owner  of  lot 4 

either    party    from    appraisal    9 

Applicants  for  Normal   Schools    112                  39 

Apportionment   of    school    funds    123 

school    funds     

Appointment  of  Clerk  or  Deputy 1 

State    Superintendent     98 

school   physicians    58 

Appraisement  of  damages 

notice    of    6 

Appropriation  for  Home   for   Feeble    Minded 10                  48 

Medical    Inspection    7                  60 

Normal   Schools    115 

Salaries   of  Union  Superintendents.  43 

Schools    in   Unorganized    Townships  97 

Summer    Schools    

Teachers'    Examinations    108 

Approval   of  plans    12 

for    new   buildings    1                  60 

Arbor  Day   3J. 

Arrest    of    truants    54 

Assessment  of    sum   for  lot    

Assessors,  duties  of    

Associations,     teachers'      

expenses    of    

Attendance,  compulsory   school    

high     schools     75 

academies     80 

public    schools 27 

B. 

Balance  unexpended    1{> 

of  mill  fund    

Blanks  for  common  school   returns   

fiscal   returns    

Blind,    instruction    for 


74  SCHOOIv   IvAWS   OF    MAINE. 

Section.     Page. 

Board  of  Trustees   Normal   Schools 113  39 

report   of    113  40 

pupils    

Boilers,   steam,   in   school  buildings 

Books,   change   of    

distribution    of    

exclusive  use  of   19 

for  schools  in   unorganized   townships 96  33 

loss   of   21 

purchase   of    

second    hand     

towns   shall    provide    19 

uniform    system    of    

Building's,  plans  for   60 

plans    for    

Business  establishments   may   be  visited 51 

C. 

Castine  Normal  School 109  38 

Census,  school,  return  of    

may   be   retaken    37  14 

unorganized    townships    92 

Certificates,  age  and  schooling   66 

attendance  at  conventions    90 

engineers'     49 

granting  of    36 

schooling    51 

superintendence   grade   44  17 

teachers'     89  32 

failure    to    secure    87  31 

grades    of     105  38 

with  local  committees   197  38 

Chancre  of  location  of  schools 

Child    labor    1  64 

illegal     51  19 

Circulars  of   information    100  36 

Cities,    certain,    having    Charters     31  11 

Classes  of  free  high  school   1  56 

Classification  of  scholars    35  13 

Clerks  to   State   Superintendent    1  52 

Collectors,   powers    and   duties   of    70 

College  preparatory  course    76  28 

presidents     83  30 

Columbus   Day    88  31 

Committee   approves    plans    12  6 

arrange  terms  of  office 30  11 

election    of    29  10 

members  of  shall  not  teach   30  11 

powers   and  duties  of    .  .  . 34  11 

serve  without  pay    33  11 

vacancies    in     30  11 

Commitment  of   truants    54  21 

to  Home  for  Feeble   Minded    5  47 

Common  school  fund   124  43 

assessment    of     125  43 

law   of   1909    1  62 

studies     100  36 

returns     102  37 

tuition      50  19 

Compensation   of   superintendent.... 

Compulsory    education     46 

unorganized    townships    .  .  . . . .  96 

school   age    46  ig 

school    age    49  i  Q  ' 

Condition    of   school    children    

Construction   of   school   buildings    . 

Continuance  of  school  unions   .'.'.'  43  17 

Contract    with    school    committee . .  .  .  62 

„„„                           trustees   of  academy    62 

CoSventions'stale  ™intained  b^   *'«*   . 

Conveyance  of  common  school'  pupils' ."  4 

high    school    pupils    56  21 

academy    propertv         .    .  27 

nS2L°f  .QChoolin&  i"   unorganized  townships.  .  .'  .'  .'  .'  .'  95 

Corporate  powers  of  school   district   .  J 

County   teachers'    associations    89  32 

formation    of     lob  36 


INDEX.  75 

Courses  of  study,  selection  of   Section.  Page^ 

at   academies     76 

at    normal    schools    ...            109  3'8 

at    normal    schools    .  .  .            110  39 

in  free  high  schools   ..              59  23 

Credit    to    students     121  41 

D. 

Dates  of  returns,  common  school 37  14 

fiscal     28  10 

Damages    laying    out    lots 3  4 

Deaf,   Maine   school    for    1  44 

Defacing-  of  school  buildings    120  41 

Delinquent   towns    16  7 

Deputy   to    State   Superintendent    I  52 

Description  of  flag  of  Maine   1  53 

Destruction  of  school   property    119  41 

Diplomas   at  Normal    Schools    Ill  39 

Discharge  of  superintendent    34  11 

Discontinuance    of    schools    2  4 

Dismissal    of    teacher    35  12 

Disposal  of   truants    48  18 

Districts,  school  abolished 1  3 

corporate  powers  of    1  3 

organized    by    legislative    act 1  3 

Disturbing*  schools,  penalty  for   118  41 

Domestic  Science,  aid  for  courses  in 3  70 

Dumb   children,   education   of      6  45 

Duties  of  State  Superintendent    100  35 

superintendent    and    committee     34  11 

towns     , 13  6 

Drawing-,    industrial    or   mechanical    23  9 

E. 

Election  of   School  Committees    29  11 

Superintendent     

Superintendent   of   Union   of   Towns 40  15 

Employment   of   Children,    illegal    51  19 

Minors,  illegal    65 

Teachers     36  14 

Encouragement   of   Industrial    Education    1  69 

Compiling  local  History  and  Geog- 
raphy      

English     Course     in     Academies 76 

Equalization    of    School    Privileges    1  63- 

Establishment  of   Free  High    Schools    56  21 

Union    Schools    18 

Evening    Schools    22  9 

aid    to    towns    maintaining    

Examination  of  pupils  entering   Secondary  Schools...  63 

pupils,    medical    

schools    39 

teachers     36 

teachers     104  37 

Exclusion    by    committee    

of    scholars     

Excused  by   committee,   attendance    

Expenditure  by    towns   failing  to   account   for  perma- 

'  nent    school   fund    

of    school    fund     

of  school  money    

of  school   money  of  plantations    

Expenses  of  clerk  or  deputy   

State    Superintendent 1 

teachers'   conventions    91 

Expulsion  of  scholars    

F. 

Failure  of  towns  to  account  for  permanent  school  fund  14 

to  perform  duties    16  7 

Farming-ton  Normal  School   

Feeble  Minded,   education    of    

Fees    for    degrees    

Fifty    Schools,    aid    to    supeinntendents    having    under 

their   care   more   than    .  .  , 1T 


76 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF   MAINE. 


Section.     Page. 

Fire    protection    in   schools 

Flair    of    Maine    

Fla|s  on  public  schools    9i 

Fog-  warning-  stations,  scholars  at    

Forestry,   instruction   in    • 

High  Schools,  clwsmcation^of  .y.  .^  •;;;;;;;;;;; 

establishment  of    

improvement    of    

inspection    of    J 

location    of    

management  of    

money    for     ** 

precincts     

precincts,    taxes    of    

•*»/%!  •rvi'K-ii  faomofit     fov  **  ' 


reimbursement  for 
returns  of    . 
state   aid   to 


65 

1 

to  be  free  

Fund,  permanent  school,  failure  to  account  for ^ 

equalization     rR 

Funds,  free  high   school  ••.•••• 

from  sale  of  timber  lands   || 

permanent    school    fg| 

school     

G. 

General  Industrial  Schools    

Geography  and   history,  t^phine-  of 

Gorham   Normal  School 


. 

Geography  and  _histpry»  teaching  of - 


Grades  of  teachers'   certificates    

H. 

Habitual    truants     

Hearing*,    examination    of     

on    location   of  lot    •» 

Hig-h  Schools,  classification  of    . 

courses  of  study  in   

establishment    of    

improvement   of    

inspection  of    

location     of     

management  of 

money    for    

precincts    

precinct,    taxes   for    

returns    for    65 

State  aid  to    

to   be   free    59 

Historian,  State    

Historical   sites    • 

Histories,   town    . 

History  and   geography,   compiling  and   teaching  of.  . 

Holidays,   school    

Home  for  Feeble  Minded   

Hygiene,  instruction  in  3.", 

I. 

Illegal  employment  of  minors    2  64 

Improvement  of  free  high  schools   56 

Improvements  on  lots 10 

Income    of   academies    29 

Incorporation   of    academies    79  29 

Industrial   Education,    encouragement   of 1  69 

Injury  to  school  buildings   119  41 

Inspection,    medical    1 

of  free   high   schools    4  57 

of    steam   plants    49 

Institutions  for  truants    54  21 

Instruction  for  blind    116  40 

in  forestry    65  44 

Instructors  for  youth,  duties   of 86  31 

Inure  to  town,  improvements    10  6 


INDI<;X.  77 
J. 

Section.     Page. 

Joint  committee  of  union  of  towns 41  16 

K. 

Kindness   to  birds  and  animals    86  31 

I,. 

Labor,    child    1  64 

Laws,   publication  of   school    100  36 

Length  of    terms    17 

Life  saving-  stations,  scholars  at 26  10 . 

Light  stations,   scholars   at    26  10 

Lincoln   Day    88  32 

List  of  approved   candidates  for  teachers'   certificates  106  38 

persons  of  school  age 37  14 

Local   history   and    geography    1  51 

Location  of  free   high  schools    58  23 

schools      2  4 

school  from  dwelling  houses   3  5 

schoolhouse  lots   3  4 

schoolhouse    lots,    erroneous     5  5 

Lots,   schoolhouse    3  4 

erroneous  location    5  5 

M. 

Machias   Normal  School  1  -  55 

Madawaska    Training    School     114  40 

Maine  School  for  Deaf   1  44 

State     Flag     1  53 

Management  of  schools   34  11 

Manual  Training,  aid  for  courses  in   3  70 

Schools    24  9 

direction  of   25  10 

Manufacturing  plants,  may  be   visited  by  truant   offi- 
cers       51  19 

Medical    Inspection 1  58 

Mill    tax     124  43 

Mill   tax    1  62 

assessment    of    125  43 

Mill  fund,   distribution   of    126  43 

distribution   of    3  62 

Minimum    school    year    17  8 

Money  for  free  high  schools    61  24 

for    schools    13  6 

how  paid   by  town    15  7 

Municipal   officers,  duties  of 28  10 

N. 

Neglect   of  towns    ; 16  7 

to  choose   committee 32  11 

Normal   School   trustees    113  39 

Washington     1  55 

Normal  Schools    109  38 

appropriation    for    115  40 

industrial    courses    in    2  69 

Notice   of   appraisement    6  5 

teachers'    examinations     104  38 

Notification  of  delinquent  committees   103  37 

o. 

Office  of  State  Superintendent    .  99  35 

Official  flag   of  Maine    1  53 

Operation  of  schools  having  too  few  scholars   2  4 

P. 

Payments  to  academies   77  29 

to  free  high    schools    1  58 

Penal  provisions   affecting  schools    .  117  41 

Penalty  for   disturbing   schools    118  41 


yg  SCHOOIv   LAWS   OF    MAINE. 

Section.     Page. 

per  capita  expenditure 

tax,    unorganized   townships    

perkina   Institute    

Permanent    school    fund     •  •  • 

failure  to  account  for    ....  < 

Physical  condition  of  school  children    

Physicians,    school    

Physiology,  instruction   in 

Plantations  and   unorganized  townships,  schools  in    .  . 

Plans   for  school   buildings    

to  be  approved  by  committee    

Precinct,  agent,  money  at  disposal  of    

free  high  school    

formation   of    

management    of    

to  be  free   

taxes     

assessment    of    

assessment  of  without  authority 

Presque   Isle   Normal    School    

Principals   of  Normal   Schools    

Privileges,    secondary    school     in     unorganized     town- 
ships     

Proceedings   of    conventions    

Property,   destruction   of    school    

Protection  of  schools   from  fire   

Pupils  from  out  of  to\vn  in  free  high  schools   

Presidents  of  colleges   

Q. 

Qualifications  of  Normal    School   applicants 112  39 

teachers    36 

superintendents    of    union    of    towns  44  17 

R. 

Raising  money   for  schools    13  6 

Record    books     100  36 

Registers,    teachers'    85  30 

Reimbursement   for   free   high   schools    2  57 

tuition    paid    64  25 

Removal   of   schoolhouse    3  4 

Report,  annual  of  State  Superintendent    100  37 

of  Normal   School    trustees    113  40 

to  town   meeting   39  15 

Reports    of    academies     82  30 

Reserved  land  fund    95  34 

Returns,   annual  of  municipal  officers    28  10 

of    Superintendent    of    Schools     37  14 

to    State    Superintendent    38  14 

blanks   for   common   school    102  37 

for   fiscal     101  37 

of  academies    S2  30 

of   free    high   schools    65 

of  tuition  payments    64  95 

of   union   superintendents    42 

Reversion  of  lot  to  owner 

s. 

Safeguarding  schools  against  danger  of  fire  1  61 

Salary  of  union  superintendents    .  41 

Sale  of  timber  lands,  funds  from   

Scholars  at  light  stations,   etc.  o* 

classification  of 
exclusion  of  ... 
expulsion  of  . 

School    age    »» 

compulsory    4g  J  ^ 

list  of  persons  of   . 

books  in  unorganized  townships   .  96 

books    (see  text-books) 

buildings,   defacing   of    190  41 

injury    to    ..'.'.I'.'.'.'.'.',  119  41 

plans   for    1  60 


INDEX.  79 

Section.     Page. 

School    census    36 

may   be   retaken    37                   14 

for    deaf    44 

for  feeble   minded    1                  46 

funds     122                   42 

distribution    of    126                   43 

expenditure    of    19 

holidays      88                  31 

laws       100                  36 

money,  how  paid  by  towns    15                     7 

of    plantations     93                   33 

withheld      16                     7 

physicians      1                   58 

Schooling-  certificates    51                  19 

Schools    evening     22                     9 

fifty,  superintendents  of  more  than 

in  plantations   and   unorganized   townships    .  .  92 

in  unorganized  townships,  agents  for 96                   34 

Normal    and    training    109 

appropriation    for    ....  4<0 

summer      100 

appropriation    for    

Secondary   instruction,    unorganized   townships 56 

Second   hand    books    19                    9 

Services   of    teachers    85                  30 

Sight,    examination    of     6                   59 

Sites,   historical    7                  52 

State  aid,  academies    

free    high    schools     55 

misapplication    of     56 

to   superintendents  having  more   than   fifty 

schools      42 

union   of  towns    42                   16 

withheld     45                   17 

educational    conventions    100                   36 

historian      1                   51 

school   fund    122 

superintendent   of   schools    98 

annual    report    of    .  .  100                  37 

appointment    of    ....  98                   35 

rlerk   of. 1                  52 

deputy     1 

duties    of    100                  35 

investigate     i  n  d  u  s- 

trial    education    . .  1                  69 

office   of    99 

salary   of    1                   52 

Statistics  of  normal  schools    109 

S/eam  plants  in  school  buildings   1                  49 

Students,   credit  to    

Studies  in  common   schools    100                   36 

Summer    training    schools     100 

appropriation    for     

Superintendence   grade   certificate    

Superintendent,    compensation    of    33 

discharge    of     34                  11 

election    of     34                   12 

powers   and    duties   of    

Superintending1  school  committee,   arrange  terms 30                  11 

election   of    29                  11 

member      of      shall 

not   teach    30                 11 

powers    and    duties 

of     34                  11 

secretary    of    -36                  13 

serve    without    pay 

.vacancies  in    30                   11  , 

Suspension  of  school    2                    4 

schools    for   conventions    90                  32 

T. 

Tax,   mill,   nssessment  of    12."                  43 

for   school   purposes    124                   43 

not  affected  by  error  in  location  of  school    11                     6 

Teacher,   dismissal   of    35                  12 

Teachers,    employment    of    36                  14 

payment  for  services   of    ,95                  30 

qualifications   of    36                   13 


8o*  ''SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  MAINS. 


Section.     Page. 

Teachers'    associations     89                 32 

certificates     36 

failure  to  secure   87                  31 

grades  of    105                  & 

to    be    accepted    by    local    com- 
mittee      107                  38 

examinations 104 

appropriation    for    108 

registers    85                  30 

Tender  to  be  allowed  in  payment  of   lot  g                    6 

Terms,    length   of    17 

Tests    for   sight   and    hearing-    60 

Text-books,   change   of    35 

distribution    of     . 20                    9 

exclusive    use    of    19 

loss  of  and   damage  to    <>i 

purchase    of    £5                  12 

second    hand     19 

town    shall    provide    19                     g 

uniform    system    of    !  !  35                  12 


Town    histories 


Towns   delinquent 16 


duties    of 


duties    of 
in 


to    be    furnished    with    number    of 


Vaccinated,  exclusion  of  scholars  not    ...............  35 


V. 
ot 
W. 


3  51 


7 
13  6 


providing  free   tuition   in   academy    . 
Training  course  for  teachers  in  academies    . 

school,    Madawaska 114  |Q 

appropriation    for 

Transportation    of    pupils     

Truancy    ,  J 

abetting     

Truant    officers    " 

election    of     ! ! ! !  |q 

compensation   of ]  \i  20 

^"*5       *  '!!!!!!!!!          51  19 


96  34 


Truants,   arrest  o 

disposal    of  ........  '.]". 

institutions  for     ..... 

Treasurer  of  State  to  apportion  school  money!!!!!  123 


Trustees  of  academieTf  '.  KC"°01  ^  10^ 

normal  schools  .  n| 

school  for  deaf  . 

•P^H          •         school    for  feeble   minded  '  ! 

Tuition  in  common  schools  .  ,-A 

secondary  schools  ! 

returns  ::::::::::::       i!         II 

u. 

Unexpended    balance 

Union  of  towns  to  ele°ct  ?upeHmendeni ! !  JJJ 

approval     of !  !  40 

continuance   of  43 

formation     of.  41  16 

joint     commit- 

schools    tees    of    41  16 

management    of  

superintendent,   appropriation ' for ' salaVies "of" 

compensation  of    

election    of    It 

qualifications   of    !!!!!!!  44 

Unorganized   townships,    schools   hi 

appropriation'  'for  ' ! 

secondary    instruction    in!!!!  l 


................ 

State   aid    .  !  !  !  ................  54 

..................  45  17 

Y. 
Year,  minimum   school 

...........................  17  8 


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